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virtuoso
06-20-2013, 10:46 AM
Said Jonson, vulgar rhyme a petty crime
Swindling paupers begging fleeting stime
Opined, syllabic compress from simple mimes
Which o'er lazy, temporal lobes did climb
Simple, jingoistic rhythms to prime
A crutch to prop up ailing, metric time

Yet, Nature's species exist in kind
Mutated limbs rarely another tract find
Elliptical, redundant orbits planets bind
To their orderly, repetitive cadence resigned
Weather systems to each season assigned
Subsistence and providence congruently aligned

Catchy rhymes are not mongrel flem
Syllabic stress each base line does hem
Its melodic sound caresses the requiem
The ballast that holds each leaf to stem
Glossy makeup that bastes face so prim
Crown jewel of every verse, syntactical diadem




beams of hope tendered
mirror images refract
combustive spark

burning ember flames
radiant glare recycles
residual steam

intense stare refuels
bursts of energy stokes flame
sweet puffs of smoke stream


'Eyes First Meet'
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