“Wherefore my rhymes oft decorate the page,
\nWhen others ’round, this virtue e’er forsake?
\nWherefore past giants of this noble art
\nEmploy this modus in their grandest works?”<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
“Or is it anything a writer pens,
\nWith rhythm, rhyme, and context undefined?
\nDear reader, now your choice is icy clear;
\nThe pow’r is yours to foreordain!”<\/p>\n
by H. Jerome Alter<\/p>\n
to H. Jerome Alter<\/p>\n
Whereas you mock the grandest greats:
\nWalt Whitman, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath
\nand for heaven’s sake the many
\nalive and well and writing yet still…<\/p>\n
mind the mind that binds one to do
\nanother’s will
\nthru trickry via word skills<\/p>\n
oh doth you dare claim
\nold Reason(s) as thy own
\ni.e. with “certainity”
\n“if you exercise you end up healthy”<\/p>\n
penned words may touch a human heart
\nto soothe, to leap, to fly
\nbut only if and forever still
\nwhen heart freely sings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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