A Broken Paradelle

A Broken Paradelle

Never drop a glass vase on the pavement

Never drop a glass vase on the pavement

Or else the flowers will die in your care

Or else the flowers will die in your care

The pavement will die, or else your care

Never on a drop in the glass vase flowers.

The red bowl will shatter if you hit it

The red bowl will shatter if you hit it

Across the table and off of the ledge

Across the table and off of the ledge

If the ledge hit it across and off,

You will shatter the table of the red bowl.

Always hold your hot mug with two hands

Always hold your hot mug with two hands

Otherwise it may fall and crack open

Otherwise it may fall and crack open

Open hands hold hot with two, always

It may otherwise crack your mug and fall.

Never hold your pavement, your hot mug

A vase may otherwise shatter, else, if you care

The flowers fall across it and die red

Will the glass with two hands on drop,

Or will the bowl in the table crack

Always hit it open and off of the ledge.



For this paradelle, I focused on things that could break. This is why I picked a bowl, a mug, and a vase. This made it easy to include imagery in my poem.