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 Dec 2013 Paul Cassano
C E Ford
Poetry with simple rhyme scheme
isn't really poetry at all.
It takes all the artistry of language,
and crushes their greatness
into something rather small.

It belittles the sharp peaks of your smile,
that peek through porcelain veils.
It takes the beauty of your eyes,
and brings them down to scale.

The rhyming ruins all seriousness,
true poets take in pride,
it leaves their work in ridicule,
though their emotions are implied.

It vastly understates
the warmth in your cheeks,
and incredibly discounts
the lions of your dreams,
making them seem weak.

That is why I will never write a poem
describing the perfection of you
in a silly little rhyme scheme;
that is what I shall not do.

I will, however, jest
at what rhyming cannot describe,
although it tries to do its best,
it falls by the wayside,

For limericks cannot contain
my pretentious heart and soul,
and cannot compare
to the magnificence you hold.

Because if I could contain your spirit,
in matters of stanzas and rhyme
my talents would be wasted,
this atrocity a crime,

But you make my writing worthwhile,
and give me ideas to muse,
instead of the dull and dread,
the pretender's butter and bread,
with none of my talents to use.
 Dec 2013 Paul Cassano
Sebastian
On a small blue planet
Rest a small blue house.

And In this small blue house
Sat a small blue box.

And in this small blue box
Lay a small blue book.

And on this planet
In this house
A small blue boy
Opened the box.

Then the book.

And he read.
I tried to make it look like small boy... not sure if anyone noticed!

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
©Sebastian @http://hellopoetry.com/sebastian/
The bottle doesn't
Love you back.
I have Psalm 20
memorized
because there is always someone sick.
She sings to use the waiting,
To ease the pain of her soul,
To gratify all needs

She sings words you'll not understand
You'll only hope to grasp it

Singing brings peace to her, she hums a little too
Songs you maybe recognize
Maybe not

Not for an audience
People make her nervous
Her room is her studio,
Her stage

She sings to her aching heart
she sings to her eyes
she'll sing to her morning, her night skies

She sings songs inside out
feeling it brew in her lungs,
from her belly to her tongue

Rolling from her lips
sounds are pure
her own

I sing to use the waiting,
To ease the pain of my soul,
And to gratify all needs


I sing songs inside out,
to my heart,
to my eyes,
and to my night skies

© 2013 Miranda Mack-Jackson
In Dwimordene, in Lorien

Seldom have walked the feet of Men,

Few mortal eyes have seen the light,

That lies there ever, long and bright.

Galadriel! Galadriel!

Clear is the water of your well,

White is the star in your white hand

Unmarrred, unstained is leaf and land,

In Dwimordene, in Lorien

More fair than thoughts of Mortal Men.

To Flammifer of Westernesse.
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
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