*Dectina
Refrain
From A Distance
Here
My heart
Beats for you
From a distance
Yet never away
Our longing souls in love
Wrapped in the secret desires
You and me encircling our joy
Through the interval of longing time
Here my heart beats for you from a distance
*Dectina
Refrain: Dectina Refrain is a 10 line poem. The first
nine lines coincide with the number of syllables used for
each line (i.e. Line one is one syllable, line two is two
syllables, and so on until line nine); the final tenth line
is a monostich made up of lines 1-4 in the poem. The
Dectina Refrain was invented by South African writer Marion
Friedenthal; Luke Rapture Elk of Lukes WordSalad on All
Poetry named the form for Marion (AllPoetry).
