I would like to write a poem,
to give some words a brand new home
to relate with one another,
sister noun and rhyming brother.
It would seem that words like form
because its different than the norm
of putting them just where we want,
and dressing them in fussy font.
Free verse works for everyday
like lines about the smell of hay,
but if with words you would transcend
to the words the mind must bend.
Rhyming always makes my day
as it is akin to play,
and gives the words a type of will
as their dictates are fulfilled.
I have loved some verses free,
a poingnant statement touches me,
but bringing spirit into matter
sounds themselves must choose their chatter.
This is a fact and not to gloat,
the best poems that I ever wrote
followed lexiconic rules,
a master builder's box of tools.
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