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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
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| 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).
