Day 117:

Oct 25-Glosa, Spain, 2 parts. Texte/Cabeza, & Glosa, explanation of Texte. 1 stanza per line of Texte. Quatrain stanzas then  repeat last line of Texte for a 5 line phrase, Texte typically from another poem.

Typically abab is the Texte, used as ABCD for the glose portion, acacA, bdbdB aeaeC cfcfD.

Title: Life

What’s life without knowing one can die?

How does one know pleasure without pain?

Contrasts weigh in, the truth with a lie

There is sunshine and also the rain.

One is born, then dies, on this rely

Mortality belongs to all

So what can one do? Do we just sigh?

Remember the words and heed the call

What’s life without knowing one can die?

Life moves on, lumbering like a train

To live is to suffer, that is seen

Take pleasure in what does remain

Learn wisdom, survive with wit still keen

How does one know pleasure without pain?

Eternity calls, behold its’ cry

The soul is not for this earth alone

Destruction beckons, this fact imply

Prepare for the future, from sin atone

Contrasts weigh in, the truth with a lie

Balance in life, without it’s insane

Observe both good and bad, health and ill

Love and hate, chaos, order remain

Make the best in the moments you fill

There is sunshine and also the rain.