Smiles!!

It’s an honor to be a part of your magazine.

Just a small note about this one. It was one of my only attempts at form poetry as I normally write free verse (except the thousand rhyming poems I wrote when I first started that are locked away in a box somewhere…lol) .

This form is called Glosa.
Here’s a synopsis of a glosa poem.

The Glosa,
is an early Renaissance form that was developed by poets of the Spanish court in the 14th and 15th centuries. In a glosa, tribute is paid to another poet. The opening quatrain, called a cabeza, is by another poet, and each of their four lines are imbedded elsewhere in the glosa.

The opening quatrain is followed by four stanzas, each of which is generally ten lines long, that elaborate or “glosses” on the cabeza chosen. Each ending line (10th line) of the four following stanzas is taken from the cabeza.

The usual rhyme scheme of a glosa is final word rhyming of the 6th, 9th and the borrowed 10th lines.

Thanks again!
R Jay