Different Language

Spanish in Guadalajara
Leans heavily on vowels in speech,
So when learning, one must beseech
The speakers to not overdraw
Vowels allowed by unwritten law.
It’s true the effect of this sound
Creates a most musical round,
So though tricky for ear to hear
Each word to make meaning more clear,
The language’s beauties abound.

(On Saturday we watched the young daughters of friends and I almost wrote a poem about the “different language” of a one-year-old. Then I was going to write about different language structures and how these structures affect understanding things in our lives, but that got too complex. So I didn’t get far with this yesterday. This afternoon I pulled up my source for different poetry forms and I found the “Decima,” a ten line poem that is used musically in Latin America. Each line has eight syllables and the lines follow this rhyme scheme: ABBAACCDDC

The form and the fact that it’s related to music made me think of our experience with Spanish while living in Guadalajara. And so you get this poem .)