Shawn L. Bird

Your smile

Lingers behind you

Caressing my heart.

I wander

Through my day, dreaming of

Your smile.

Can you

Feel the gaze that

Lingers behind you?

My happiness

Held in your hands

Caressing my heart.

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This is a CASCADE poem, a form attributed to Udit Bhatia.  The form has no fixed rhyme or rhythm, but is arranged in stanzas that echo the model of the first stanza.  Each following stanza ends in a subsequent line from the first stanza. 

eg. where letters indicate a line and a grouping is a stanza, the pattern goes like this:  ABC DEA FGB HIC   The longer the first stanza, the longer the poem.

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