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10

Feb

Rhyming Slag

Syllables can rhyme, as well as sounds
The Beginning of a line, the (middle) or The End.
It’s the micro not the macro, the devil’s in the detail.
You start with grand ideas but they end up fairly foetal.

I could conjure up a rhyme, or at least the feeling of one
With just one pivotal con-so-nant.

A vowel, I think, is the easier thing.
An i for an i, just slot them in
Like so.

You think you have it now?
The poet’s gift, the creative flow?
But where is the meaning, the image, the feeling?
Your rhyme is full, but your poetry?

Demeaning.

  1. womanofherword posted this