I've copied this generalized explanation of a sestina. For a more detailed description (and to see why mine isn't a true sestina) click the link below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sestina
Sestina:
The sestina has six stanzas, each comprising six unrhymed lines, in which the words at the end of the first stanza’s lines reappear in a rolling pattern in the other stanzas. The poem then ends with a three-line stanza in which the words again appear, two on each line. (From Wikipedia)
Enough said. Enjoy!
As if we weren’t desperate for
Longing, and ever-present daydreams.
Something unexpected always seems to
Break into the love-ly-ness, and grin,
Hoping for something large and fantastic…
Existentiality always broke my heart.
Somehow the time never seems right for
Entering the haywire doldrums I’m accustomed to.
Breathe in the fragments of thought, so fantastic.
And no matter how hard I face your grin,
I find something aching inside my heart.
Those stupid clouds with their beauty, causing my daydreams.
These silly, omnipresent daydreams
Stick like glue, making it harder to
Open myself; harder then a flower, with its fantastic
Blooming seasons; always hurting for
No good reason. Even though there’s cracks in my heart
I still hug, embrace, “How are you?” and grin.
I’m lugging my baggage across the airport for
The fiftieth time, getting ready to take off to
A land of filthy, brightly built daydreams.
There’s lovely turbulent fluttering in my heart:
I grip the seat and grin.
Flying is always so fantastic.
I clasp my hands slowly, and bow to those daydreams,
The ones that spark with colors plentiful; fantastic.
I hope that someday I will aspire to
The same kind of life as those glittering spirits; for
Who could argue against this stoic heart?
Just thinking of it makes me grin.
I don’t wish to claim these daydreams-
Wanderings- as my own; for
Surely every person in their right mind and heart
Hears the same shadow-cresented whispers, to
Me, from ghosts with wild grins
That are oh, so fantastic.
I wish I could put to you the task of filling your heart
With happy grins and haunting daydreams
Flitting through an ethereal life. For, what could be more fantastic?
