Glosa Tribute to Arthur Hugh Clough

Written for Albert's Poetry Cafe "Fun with Form" THE GLOSA (take a verse from a poet you admire and use his verse as a pattern with each line in turn as a line in each of your four stanzas, following his style)

Tribute to Arthur Hugh Clough (Glosa)

Tribute to Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-61)
from “Some Future Day”

'Some future day, when what is now is not,
When all our faults and follies are forgot,
And thought of difference passed like dreams away,
We’ll meet again, upon some future day.'

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Arthur Hugh Clough

Some future day, when what is now is not,
Invisibly erased in time's swift blot,
And memory grown sweeter dashed with tears,
We'll see not what's transfigured throughout the years.

When all our faults and follies are forgot,
When quarrels left behind have met their rot,
And youthful foolishness has lost appeal,
We'll look upon reunion with true zeal.

And thought of difference passed like dreams away,
As if to float on clouds above the fray,
With understanding found, compassion met,
This time we've shared may matter to us, yet.

We'll meet again, upon some future day,
But how or where or when is hard to say.
Until we greet each other face-to-face,
My heart shall hold, for you, a special place.

By Sharon Miller Bolander

© 2008 Sharon Miller Bolander

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Salvatore Buttaci

Very nice glosa.

I had learned a different glosa arrangement.

A Spanish form invented by court poets in the 14th and 15th centuries. An opening quatrain, called a 'cabeza' is chosen from another poet. The glosa elaborates or 'glosses' on the quatrain with four ten-line stanzas, their concluding lines taken consecutively from the quatrain and their sixth and ninth lines rhyming with the borrowed tenth.

You might want to try it.

Sal