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Code My Ode



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CODE MY ODE
By Leon Enriquez


I pen my writes 
With mystic ink
As words I cite
Seed what I think


I craft my lines
With simple rhymes
As I feed fine
Crisp rustic chimes

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The words ooze fast
In sensuous feel
Now first to last
In cast that spills


Prize thoughts that float
Across my mind
As if to bloat
Deep profound finds

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The way of ease
In glimpse of lot
Moves joy and lease
In verse I slot


An ode of verse
With profound play
As I observe
The Milky Way 

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Clouds drift and dot
Upon dream stay
Where fate grooms lot
On this my way


In steep deep trip
Ink stains cursive
Move fingers’ grip
Wit verse that live

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The writer’s craft
Starts with a thought
In tensile draft
As rhymes allot


I rise and shine
With happy grudge
To stay what’s mine
With words that nudge

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Words have a way
To state my case
Etch truth that stays
Upon rhyme base


Forge hue and tint
That colours shade
Word art blooms mint
As rhymes now trade

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The winding road
Where life goes by
Bears fate that loads
My weary sighs


Cheer and gloom set
My lovely fest
Where gambling bets
Attune with quest

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Words juggle well
With poesy here
In a strange tell
To cluster near


Words in a gush
Stream on full scale
As muse must rush
Fine course of gale

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So here’s my ode
As rhymes now show
Risk sanguine code
As mode thus grows


Music grooms lines
In show-and-tell
Where words incline
True yarn that dwells

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In gall or brine
Feel the outburst
Rhymes attend lines
In soul’s own thirst


Words on a page
Convey and hint
Upon the stage
Of feel that mints

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Feel sad or mad
Upon these shores
Feel good or bad
Or odd once more


Words paint a sketch
Of feel and think
As if to match
Strange fate that links 

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Here for a while
My moments cull
A certain style
In touch not dull


Ode in pure mode
Now captures time
To craft deep code
In poignant chimes

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Leon Enriquez
07 January 2024
Singapore

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