Answering the Challenge

I don’t often write rhyming poetry, but when I do I have a lot of fun! Just don’t take this seriously! Words are tools, jester’s cap and bells, wisdom, and adventure …

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ANSWERING THE CHALLENGE                      

the writer burns with a lust
that urges every poem’s thrust
into fame or direst dust

metaphors aren’t hard to find
springing upward to the mind
with neat similes intertwined

sonnets and their three quatrains
ballads with weird la-la refrains
challenge all creative brains                                    

fib and rondeau, other forms
threaten our accepted norms
with bravura mental storms

every trick the poet knows
used until the poem glows
to outdo fiction’s purple prose

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A Summer Father … terse, imagistic lines; … It’s not nostalgia that we experience but quiet, poignant grief. Richard Stevenson