A Walk in the Woods (Rondeau)

Come walk with me on wooded trail

where nature’s beauty shall prevail;

a single step and we begin...

serenity abides within

the crisp, clean air we now inhale.

We walk beside abandoned rail,

can hear the ghost train whistles wail--

then path leads back to woods again…

Come walk with me.

We live our lives in urban jail,

away from quiet wooded dale.

To stay entrapped would be a sin

when nature beckons with her grin,

and lifts the gray and smog filled veil--

Come walk with me.

From www.desktopscenes.com "Muir Woods"

A Rondeau is a French form, 15 lines long, consisting of three stanzas: a quintet, a quatrain, and a sestet with a rhyme scheme as follows: aabba aabR aabbaR. Lines 9 and 15 are short - a refrain (R) consisting of a phrase taken from line one. The other lines are longer (but all of the same metrical length).
One Shot Poetry Wednesday Week #44 ~ 05/03/2011
Sharing at Gooseberry Garden, Week 10, Theme: Nature