Love Poem: A Reverse Rant
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Written by: Michelle Faulkner

A Reverse Rant

"Rhyming poems have nothing of substance to say
They're childish! Ridiculous! Silly! Passe!

What's that - 'The Raven,' fine prose, you assure?
Pshaw, a talking bird is not Literature!
'The Road Not Taken' - how indecisively trite
'Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day' ~ why, out of spite?

'How Do I Love Thee' - such female nonsense!
'She Walks in Beauty,' not even past tense!
'Oh Captain, my Captain' just repeats and repeats
'Death Be Not Proud' - indeed, no great feat

Rhyme is over and done, finite, dead
Give me a rambling run-on sentence, instead!"

Sure, it's easy to call Dr. Seuss poppycock
HIS books are world-famous, what have YOU got?

12/11/18

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