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Love was a weight we could not bear
by Carl Glover

This ‘plot’ /challenge is to write a Kyrielle of an imagined dialogue between an estranged couple. The title of the poem is also the refrain.

Each plot submission should be one stanza long.
 
A Kyrielle is a French form of rhyming poetry written in quatrains (a stanza of four lines), and each quatrain contains a repeating line, as a refrain, which is usually the last line of each stanza. Each line within the poem consists of only eight syllables. There is no limit to the number of stanzas a Kyrielle may have.

This challenge is for a  aabB  rhyme pattern. An example of this pattern is illustrated in the extract of a Kyrielle below.

John Payne (1842-1916)

Golden morning and purple night,
Life that fails with the failing light;
Death is the only deathless one.
All things must end that have begun.

Toil and pain and the evening rest;
Joy is weary and sleep is best;
Fair and softly the day is done.
All things must end that have begun.

The idea for setting a challenge  was inspired by Jan Mikaszewicz. 


Title: 1
Author: Carl Glover

My pillow still wet from your tears;
Heart lurching in panic and fear;
Alone, the eternal pair.
Love was a weight we could not bear.



Title: (2)
Author: Geraldine Harper

You are an expert at excuse
Lamenting now fulfils no use
You 'served your time' without a care
Love was a weight we could not bear.



Title: (3)
Author: Carl Glover

Let us remember early days;
excited touch and loving gaze.
I'd like us both to go back there.
Love was a weight we could not bear.

Title: (4)
Author: Jan Miklaszewicz

Back when your heart was not a husk;

before the daylight fell to dusk;

before the seams began to tear.

Love was a weight we could not bear.



Title: (5)
Author: Carl Glover

Tell me when the slip-slide began.
What happened to our Master Plan?
When did our smiles sour in despair?
Love was a weight we could not bear.

Title: (6)
Author: Jan Miklaszewicz

As if you really need to ask:

when you did fall, when you did bask

inside a nest made from her hair.

Love was a weight we could not bear.



Title: (7)
Author: Carl Glover

Not that handcuff named jealousy?
From you, who was so wild, and free?
How did you conjure this affair?
Love was a weight we could not bear.

Title: (8)
Author: Jan Miklaszewicz

I conjured it from what I saw;

from your late key slid in the door;

from whispered phone-calls on my stair.

Love was a weight we could not bear.



Title: (9) c/o Maggie Huscroft
Author: Jan Miklaszewicz

Why are we spitting bile like this?

What happened to our earlier bliss?

No more our hearts are light as air.

Love was a weight we could not bear.



Title: (10)
Author: Carl Glover

As usual you turn and hide.
My suspicions tossed aside.
The truth, from you, is warped, and rare.
Love was a weight we could not bear.

Title: (10)
Author: Jan Miklaszewicz

It's always we when you're to blame:

you never let it wear your name.

So put your hand up (if you dare).

Love was a weight we could not bear.



Title: 12
Author: Carl Glover

Blame now is it? From you, that's rich!
You were the one who scratched their itch.
Now you retort that life's unfair.
Love was a weight we could not bear.

Title: (13)
Author: Kelly Sweet

There's just no point carrying this on.
We were two, and now we are one.
Get your sad face out of my hair.
Love was a weight we could not bear.



Title: (14)
Author: Jan Miklaszewicz

We were one, now we are two:

I cut my toes to fit your shoe

and numbed my backside on your chair.

Love was a weight we could not bear.



Title: 15
Author: Geraldine Harper

It's easy for you; laugh it off!
Your style, as always, mock and bluff
You go through life without a care
Love was a weight we could not bear



Title: 16
Author: Carl Glover

Chastise me, and I cannot speak.
My thoughts and words become oblique.
Both of us feel much worse for wear.
Love was a weight we could not bear.



Title: (17)
Author: Jan Miklaszewicz

I think it best you cannot speak:

you've gifted me an ashen streak

and swindled me of all my flair.

Love was a weight we could not bear.



Title: (18)
Author: Carl Glover

And how you, to admit defeat.
To leave the onus at my feet.
I needed help, but were you there?
Love was a weight we could not bear.



Title: (19)
Author: Jan Miklaszewicz

I think you never knew of me:

you merely sought to annexe me;

a Ginger to your Fred Astaire.

Love was a weight we could not bear.



Title: (20)
Author: Carl Glover

Yet dancing together was bliss;
smooching, entwined, sealed with a kiss.
Our laughter carried by charmed air.
Love was a weight we could not bear.



Title: (21)
Author: Jan Miklaszewicz

I give you that:  you waltzed me well;

my heart enfeebled by your spell.

But then one day it wasn't there.

Love was a weight we could not bear.



Title: (22)
Author: Carl Glover

Does 'new love' always fade to grey?
Is 'true love'  just something to say?
Are hearts designed to withstand tear?
Love was a weight we could not bear.


Title: Heavy 23
Author: Tanya Withers

Don't give me that sympathy steal.
We all get hurt. Love's never real.
Why try and fix that past repair?
'Love' was a weight we could not bear.

Title: (24)
Author: Carl Glover

Well now I'm feeling very low,
I fear we have, nowhere to go;
it's as if you are unaware.
Love was a weight we could not bear.

Title: Tug: 25
Author: Rachel from Girls Talk

Clever how your words tug at strings.
At every end, a twist begins.
Is this dire duel really fair?
Love was a weight we could not bear.



Title: (26)
Author: Jan Miklaszewicz

Words fail what I want to say.

Be happy, simply fade away

into the sun on your blind mare.

Love was a weight we could not bear.



Title: (27)
Author: Carl Glover

My horse is chomping at the bit..
Life for me, now knows no limit.
The sun's warm rays afford no glare.
Love was a weight we could not bear.

Title: (28)
Author: Geraldine Harper

At this point should I now concede
That  being with you, is my need.
We grew together, learned  to share.
Love was a weight we could not bear.

Title: (29)
Author: Jan Miklaszewicz

Your concession proves the fact

you've got no iron in your back.

I'm nauseous with your despair.

Love was a weight we could not bear.



Title: (30)
Author: Carl Glover

Show a weakness and I am shamed?
So it's all down to playing games?
And you're the lion of the lair?
Love was a weight we could not bear.

Title: (31)
Author: Jan Miklaszewicz

Funny how the strength you liked

became the focus of your spite;

contempt is born from what was care.

Love was a weight we could not bear.



Title: (32)
Author: Carl Glover

Let us both stand back and reflect;
no relationship is perfect.
We climbed and then fell down the stairs.
Love was a weight we could not bear.

Title: 33
Author: Peter Philips

Perfection? No! Honest? Never!
In words, not  deeds, you played clever.
As an actor, you have the flair.
Love was a weight we could not bear.

Title: (34)
Author: Jan Miklaszewicz

You can wreck but you can't build;

drink from a cup you never filled;

bespoil with no thought for repair;

Love was a weight we could not bear.



Title: (35)
Author: Jan Miklaszewicz

Good luck with yourself my dear:

you need an awful lot, I fear.

Remember when, remember where,

love was a weight we could not bear.



Title: End
Author: Carl Glover

Be gone with patronising ills.
Memories of you give me chills.
I now escape  from your barbed snare.
Love was a weight we could not bear.

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