Springtime

a quatrain ballad

This form is a quatrain ballad. 
Structure: 4 stanzas of 4 lines each (a quatrain). 
Rhyme: The end words of the second and fourth lines of each stanza rhyme. 
(This is called an abcb rhyme scheme.)
Rhythm: I kept the suggested rhythm of 8 syllables, 6 syllables, 8, and 6 for each quatrain.
I'm here to report that form that demands structure, rhyme, AND rhythm is NOT EASY!!

Springtime

I keen mournful songs—the daily
planetary losses
mount at rampant, sinister speed
becoming thunder albatrosses

Yet new shoots push through yielding soil
responding to light’s call
their courage lifts my darkened mood
I twirl in May dewfall

Songbirds sing out from tree to tree
warm breezes ruffle hair
Clouds build, dissolve, stack up again
Spring sex is in the air

With it comes hope—life’s tonic 
brightening my outlook
I dash for home, quick search—smiling.
 resurrect my sketchbook