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 ENRICHING POETICS?
On the Quandary of the Poet,
Desperate to Craft Refreshing Novel Rhymes

 "Let me see now...
Moon, June, Goon? No!
Moon, June, Prune? No!
Moon, June, Loon? Drat!
Moon, June, Poon! Yes!
That's got it!"
 

By PAUL HERTELENDY
of TheColumnists.co;m

 

 

Moon-June-tune,
Sky-high-by,
True-blue-you.
All the choicest pairs are long since done.
But poetry, my friend, retains long legs to run.
I’ll move new themes a mile beneath the sea, with verses maritime,
Assuring Neptune’s treasures penned in rhyme,
Following a whole new paradigm.

 

©2009 by Paul Hertelendy. The illustration is from IMSI's Master Clips Collection, 1895 Francisco Blvd. E., San Rafael, CA, 94901-5506, USA. This column was first posted Nov. 9, 2009.

Paul Hertelendy is critic and webmaster for the arts-review web site www.artssf.com, and is also the Piedmont (CA) Centennial poet laureate. To visit his website, click here: PAUL

 

 

 


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