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Dom Mart
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since 1999-08-17
Posts 164
Florida

0 posted 1999-08-26 01:55 PM



I wonder if I'll ever see
A verse that's not in rhyme, but free,
Emitted from the pen I ply.

Now every line that I indite
Is locked in rhyme and meter tight.
I'm just a rhyme and meter guy.

I wish my thoughts I could express
In partial or more casual dress
Than is my current wont.

They should come out in random lengths
(Gemetry's not among my strengths).
They should come out in spurts, but don't.

Instead, upon the page they lie
Like rungs upon a ladder high,
Rhymed and metered to the sky.
Please forebear to ask me why
I wrote them thus. You know that I
Am guilty and will not deny
That I'm a rhyme and meter guy.

© Copyright 1999 Dom Mart - All Rights Reserved
miriam
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since 1999-08-26
Posts 323
glendale,ca.
1 posted 1999-08-26 02:38 PM


i thought your poem was great.
Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA
2 posted 1999-08-26 06:39 PM


and the world can use more good ones like you. This is well done. Never apologize for R&M. It is the mortar that poetic bricks rest on.
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