Author's Note: I suppose you were all hoping for more from me, because of this latest of my long breaks. Unfortunately, time is running out before I head back to college, and a lengthy piece I had planned will either have to wait until next summer or be forever disregarded due to memory lose. I hope this poem will suffice.

Paradelle: One of the more demanding French fixed forms; a poem of four six-line stanzas in which the first and second lines, as well as the third and four lines of the first three stanzas, must be identical. The fifth and six lines, which traditionally resolve these stanzas, must use all the words from the preceding lines and only those words. Similarly, the final stanza must use every word from all the preceding stanzas and only those words.
"Paradelle of the Millennium Items"

By: Aesa Bast

Seven golden objects gleam in darkness
Seven golden objects gleam in darkness
Ancient Egypt held bearers for each
Ancient Egypt held bearers for each
Seven golden bearers held Ancient Egypt objects
For each gleam in darkness

In modern times had six
In modern times had six
One by one they fell
One by one they fell
Had six they fell
One by one in modern times

Stone sarcophagus final resting-place
Stone sarcophagus final resting-place
Each slot to be filled with yellow gold
Each slot to be filled with yellow gold
Stone sarcophagus filled with yellow gold
Each slot final resting-place to be

Ancient Egypt held bearers for seven golden objects
Modern times had six to gleam with yellow gold
For each fell one by one
In darkness final resting-place
In stone sarcophagus to be
Filled each slot