Compendium of Favoured Forms

OPEN Each chiselled line enamel images to float upon sounds sans rime staccato syntax align symmetry as iambics beat the drum of vers liber... ....tine crosswise MATISSE Your art your notes your style So varied so wise so true Opened then drew close to My eye my mind my heart My eye my mind my heart To love to learn to know Your craft your theory your technique Forever you made so unique crosswise-GRAND-DAUGHTERS FAIR Your innocence your purity your smile So open so natural so wide Charms enchants awakes My spirit my eyes my pride My spirit my eyes my pride Inside in wonder in youth To pray to gaze to praise In love in awe of thee quintile-SWEET VERSE words too familiar or too remote defeat the purpose of which, he wrote was his hidden enigma a step too far, if no-one could open his jar Inspired by Johnson's famous dictum sequence-THE COUNSELLOR He opens hearts and minds in sickness and health- He draws us to himself a quiet voice we hear prompts and reminds- until peace we find- Then fills us with His word, so we may be heard Fibonacci-faith quaternion when I listen God will speak when God speaks my mind will hear when the open door closes light begins to glow a new way for me to go An open verse Will my verse reach your ear can your eye stay the course Does unconvention confound the rhythm of your eyes Take a deep breath exhale and read between my lines unphased by phrase and habitude or human voice The choice is always yours if my poem will be or is not to be a tune upon your ear