I've posted this poem here because it has end rhymes. Not all perfect ones. I'm mostly interested in a few suggestions to give the lines some sort of fixed form, perhaps changing some words to achieve that. I don't want a complete re-write of my poem, so if it's too complicated don't take the trouble! Thanks a lot!
PATAGONIA LOST
In many ways I’ve left behind the dreams and loves I cherished most, and yet as years go by the word adios still binds me to the coos of turtledoves; the glare of Austral skies, where a circling bird
swoops to snatch a creature fleeing in the brush. Of trails Tehuelche braves stalked in bygone days, or nomad’s camps safe from the Holy Grail rush; before winka sliced the steppes with railways
forged by slaves to traffic Remingtons, or purged the patterned prairies of jaguars and ñandues. Concrete dams and buzzing pylons emerged on cactus lands, carcasses shed lucent hues
on llanos swept anhydrous by the wailing winds. Thus memory is laced with fuzzy images of childhood pastures… heartstrings my thoughts will not let go despite the ravages
of time and loss. So to the present day I smile at all my lost or wayward worlds -red horizons receding in a cone of plangent light- meanwhile spirits summon me from crowded pantheons
of Patagonian lore. Captive of the fading tones that grip my heart or force an odd grimace cling to phantom walls, I cannot rouse the swaying poplar trees, nor speak to you, caress your face.
by Psyche.
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Mis temas favoritos The Lord replied, my precious, precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.
"There is no life higher than the grasstops Or the hearts of sheep, and the wind Pours by like destiny, bending Everything in one direction."
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