Maize in a Maze (worth comtemplating?)

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Open Poetry #22

Maize in a Maze (worth comtemplating?)

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2002-09-11 01:46 PM

Maize in a Maze

Ya know,
it was just perhaps
when the avant garde
took the rhyme out of the song,
that reason began to leave the world and
everything went wrong.

For in days of olde
when metered verse
had a goal it need not rehearse
one always knew,
whether long or terse,
a poem, a song would find resolve.

The ending line,
the ending note
would be quite predictable,
and most every one
from here to there
would not be called despicable.

We tried to make
everything fit
within the confines of a square,
until Picasso shook our minds
and twisted them here and there.

For now, it seems,
we think it's right
for eyes upon one’s chin,
and for music
to rock and reel about
as long as there’s a din.

Mazes are the rage
for plantings of our corn
so we can get lost in the haze
of which way to turn.
Corn rows grow in hair
not in a granary field
a semblance of order
did, to great confusion, yield.

©September 11, 2002

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

Krawdad
Member Elite

since 2001-01-03

Posts 2597

1 posted 2002-09-11 02:09 PM

Hmmm . . .
Now you've got me pondering the popularity of the maize maze.
The need for disorder amidst order?
Boredom?
Competition in everything?
Curious.
Enjoyed this VAS.

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

2 posted 2002-09-11 02:31 PM

Thanks, Krawdad, for taking time to read and respond with such a thoughtful thought.

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

3 posted 2002-09-11 02:43 PM

You sure made it worth contemplating, VAS.
What I like, is how, you speak of resolutions in rhyming verse,
and yet, this one ends with a question
and a call.
Brilliant!

Mikey

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