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TO RHYME OR NOT TO RHYME?

Aye, that is the potent query.

The problem is that deep felt thoughts

have little patience with theory.

To hold  a thought in obeyance

’til a rhyme offers conveyance

feels sophomoric and needless,

and carves my own rep as heedless.

I confess to a transgression

of our  upright profession

of rigid rules to guide us all

on the straight road of protocol.

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PRACTICING

Practicing to rhyme so that I fit in;

prose poems I guess are nearly a sin.

Far be it for me to rock the boat,

so I need to keep mundane verses afloat.

The rude and the crude,

they rhyme every time.

So why did I leave the rhyme

so sublime?