1)Fall about.
2)humankind falls down by means of you.
3)shed tears.
4)afterward you wail and no-one else.
2)humankind falls down by means of you.
5)heartrending world obliged to have amuse,
4)afterward you wail and no-one else.
6)contrary, it has misfortune sufficient.
5)heartrending world obliged to have amuse,
7)yet croon and prominence commands response
6)contrary, it has misfortune sufficient.
8)heave sigh, no one to be found in heaven
9)excepting if jubilant resonance
3)shed tears.
10)yet they back away if you express concern.
1)Fall about.
This is my first Sestina, written in, I believe 2006 the pattern is six words repeated at the end of the lines in seven stanzas. like this 123456, 615243. The last three lines are the six words in any order, one in the middle and one at the end of each line. I left the extra stuff in… numbers and verse count because it helped me follow the rules. It’s hard to write one that makes sense. I like finding random words when creating a constraint. For example, I may decide that I am going to use the seventh word of each paragraph from one page of a random book I pull off my library shelf and open to a random page. If that isn’t challenging enough then I may choose structure rules as well, such as in the Pantoum above.
WoPoLi 
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