'Beyond a sestina'

Being inspired and motivated, I wanted to expand my writing experiences and, so, I learned to write a sestina poem! A sestina is a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet. At the end of each stanzas is the same six words, written in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern. It was definitely a challenge to write a sestina, but I enjoyed it and loved the experience of learning something new!

I finally polished a new one about the notion of "time" which explores the ideal that contradicts the concept: immortality.

Beyond 

As the hand turns, the precious

chime of time murmurs 

with the wings of birds as they

fly around the cage only

opened by a key which would turn 

by someone with an unfathomable yearn,

And when they yearn

for something more precious

than the chime, the birds will likely turn

towards the right path where only

the valiant can hear the murmur

and cry of lonely musings by they,

the Gods, and their lonely lullabies for they,

like the trees, yearn

for something only

attained by those with the precious

gift of listening to the murmur

of silent birds as they cry; but when they turn

the key, they turn

the key to a future where they,

the birds, are free to dance and murmur 

silently around those with the yearn

for something more precious

than an imprisoning idea, which only

the courageous can conquer, where only

freedom is at their door for which they can turn

the key to and sacrifice their precious

memories of love, for they 

desire the thing they yearn

for, which is to hear birds flying and hear the bird's murmur,

and the sound of the bird's murmur

would be like the sound of freedom. We are only

humans with the longing yearn

for something beyond our ambitions but are too rigid to turn

to the path towards they,

the Gods, with the ideal that's unattainable and too precious.

For the silent cry and murmur

of the flying birds may only

be the fiction that we, humans, falsely yearn.

- n

I'm hoping its concept is understandable - let me know what you think!