Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Prompt : Street

Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 66: (STREET) in the C rhyme line.

If you want to participate, here’s the link:  RONOVAN WRITES 

QUICK DESCRIPTION OF HOW TO WRITE A DÉCIMA:

1. There are 10 lines of poetry that rhyme.
2. 8 syllables per line.
3. There is a SET RHYMING PATTERN we must stick to. ABBAACCDDC OR  two stanzas of ABBA/ACCDDC.

Décima  (8 syllables, 10 lines, rhyme pattern: abbaaccddc)

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Youth wanders away to find life,
toddlers of adulthood searching
perfection without nurturing
their innocence, despite the strife.

In middle age our verbal knife
becomes a weapon on life’s street.
We rush past love — and all we meet
become the victims of our quest.
In old age we witness the best,
impaled by death’s sword of defeat.