Author: Tina Stewart Brakebill

as our memories fade away 

misty behind a shadowed veil           

the jagged edges dulled with fray     

as our memories fade away                             

 

ego and shame stop holding sway                                                                 

the once vibrant shades turn to pale                                   

as our memories fade away                 

misty behind a shadowed veil                       

Image credit; Mohsen Karimi @ Unsplash

Inspired by WDYS’s photo prompt and my own fading memories 😉 

What do you see # 316- 24 November, 2025

I played around with a couple of different styles, but I felt it worked best with the Triolet, which is an 8-line poem where lines repeat in rhythm:

Lines 1, 4, and 7 are the same, and lines 2 and 8 are also repeated.

The rhyme scheme looks like this: ABaAabAB (uppercase = repeated lines).

If you’d like to make it a little trickier, try writing each line with 8 syllables (iambic tetrameter, the classic French style) — or challenge yourself with 10 syllables per line (the English version). I chose the 8-syllable version today.