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An Ode to a Rhyme Scheme

We want not words

Of rhyme nor reason,

We wish for verbs

Words of doing and done.

No time to be kept,

No analysis of style,

We simply want words

Scattered

About

A page, call it poetry.

The story is there,

No difficulty in

Interpretation,

Is it sin?

To take words from within?

To make in a form that may begin

Or end with endings that are akin?

Any fool might make a story

By breaking up lines in a paragraph,

But can they describe it in emotion?

The diction is gory,

Chopped up, sing epitaph,

A poem written in commotion.

A rhyme is no force than a song from a Lori,

Free verse may be fine for more than just a laugh

But the story is lost in an ocean.

A sea of chopped stanzas,

Direction with no form.

But the ship might still sail,

Any port in a storm.

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jack-touchet
American
Published
Feb 2, 2012
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