EXULTANT

Softly but deeply
Moving over me
Breathed upon me

Depositing his life
Softly but deeply
Upon every strife

Renewed, I’m thankful
Changed, I’m grateful
Softly but deeply.

P.S Thanks to Benny Wanjohi for introducing the Benny Poem type on the Writers Space Africa group. Read the instructions below on the structure of a Benny Poem and feel free to try it out too.

Benny Poem is a three-stanza tercet with a refrain (repeated line) which alternates position progressively from stanza to stanza as follows. The rhyme scheme is ABB, CAC, DDA.

The structure is as follows:

TITLE

This is the refrain
This is S1 line 2
This is S1 line 3

This is S2 line 1
This is the refrain
This is S2 line 3

This is S3 line 1
This is S3 line 2
This is the refrain