Three Seguidilla by Jake Sheff

 

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Three Sequidilla

The Seagull’s 134th Seguidilla

 

The smartest and the fastest

Gulls are gulls and gulls

Only. With humble and honest 

Hope, I crush my goals.

South-westerlies jogged 

The sky’s big white migration.

Since then, time’s jagged. 

The Seagull’s 137th Seguidilla

 

The minds of other seagulls 

Are behind a veil,

As are those other worlds to

Ours in parallel. 

Importance, too; I 

Know that to ring its frail bell

Sometimes experts lie. 

The Seagull’s 140th Seguidilla

 

One can’t miss how weird it is

To be alive. Sub-

Species of confusion try,

Like every Jacob.

Wholly unfettered,

A bird’s not free long without

My brother’s bollard.

The seguidilla is a verse form of Spanish in origin. It has seven syllable-counted lines, and rhymes the second and fourth, and the fifth and seventh lines.

© Jake Sheff

Jake Sheff

 Jake Sheff is a pediatrician and US Air Force veteran. He’s published a full-length collection of formal poetry, “A Kiss to Betray the Universe” (White Violet Press), along with three chapbooks: “Looting Versailles” (Alabaster Leaves Publishing), “The Rites of Tires” (SurVision) and “The Seagull’s First One Hundred Seguidillas” (Alien Buddha Press).

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