Dreary

For Andrew

The magpies are quiet today,

all day, those glorious warblers.

Are their voices or their spirits 

dampened by close looming rain clouds?

All day, those glorious warblers

remain silent. Have they left us?

Or simply gone into hiding?

I miss their jaunty strutting! And …

Are their voices or their spirits

responding to the weather change?

Meanwhile my breasts yearn for your hand.

(Your voice stopped in a past Springtime.)

Dampened by close looming rain clouds,

my spirit reaches for you, for

your body with mine, for music

we made together once. But …

Trying the Retourne form for dVerse MTB: Returning to Fours

Form:

• 16 lines made up of 4 quatrains
• 8 syllables per line
• a tumbling refrain using the last 3 lines of the first stanza thus:
  xABC Bxxx Cxxx Dxxx
• unrhymed (for this prompt, although can be rhymed)