Here is an excerpt from my poem "Free Verse I - The Anthem", the first part in my Free Verse trilogy. The first four lines here are to set the background. The snippet, I suppose, can stand on its own.
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ORANGE TROUBLE
(From Free Verse - I )
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It is the poet’s struggle
To find the words to juggle
To make it a decent rhyme
On lines, each and every time.
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If capture the poet’s heart does an orange
(Oh,that lime sublime!)
But alas, which has no rhyme!
How his feelings can he messenge?
Is his to be a still-born rime
For his hapless subject’s ‘crime’?
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- Thomas Jay Cubb
PS Other words with no rhymes include : month, nothing, purple. Also check out the limerick by Jim Farrand at http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~henkm/english/rhyme.html
Friday, September 02, 2005
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My prayer to your blog (originally prayer before I read a book)
ReplyDeleteI watch thee through my blind eyes,
One giant eye in blue cloudy skies,
Peering through a multitude of sheeny speculations,
Like a disco light casting its vibrant reflections.
Trying to figure out the twisted route,
You seem to take me with fleet foot,
Take me, where you will, I beg of you,
The red grounds of Hades, I will follow too,
But lead me not the familiar grounds of herd,
The safe haven of familiarity, I find absurd,
Lets elope this reality and truth the world offers,
Instead laze in a strawberry field, amidst a thousand philosophers,
I beg you, take me to a foggy surreality,
This, is, my only prayer to thee.
- A reader from now of your blogs