Finding My Inner Porpoise Rhyme Schema
She kept TELLING,
YELLING at me,
to GO with the FLOW, to write with a GLOW. How?
My mind feels too SLOW to capture the UNDERTOW!
I try rising to the SURFACE with my VERSES. yet
I wander from PURPOSE, bam the bottom or a boat.
Feeling like a dazed PORPOISE, stranded and stunned!
Desiring the protection, of a TORTOISE shell
Underwater there's no way to YELL for help
My voice muted like broken BELL not able to sing
Vocal chords locked by an ancient SPELL
A mind cracked and confused
With a story to TELL
Up was up until it FELL
Wanting to THRIVE, a member of a pod or HIVE
With words I feel ALIVE
In unison I FLY and DIVE through liquid space
Not noticing the warning SIGNS up ahead
My words are more than nursery RHYMES
The arbrators of more and lesser TIMES multiplied by NINES
Here swimming within discarded LINES
They are articulations born to be,
stringed together.
With each one I arrive at the end of myself
My BEGINNING is my ENDING within this ocean TRANSCENDING
Words CURVING and BENDING
Temporarily used
we are all PRETENDING
HOPING
LESSENING
Afraid of OFFENDING
Worried what message we are SENDING
Some are gentle others SHARKS
Eyes that glow through water like SPARKS
Yet some eyes are cold and DARK
Destiny of man a cryptic MARK
Floated on this water in an ancient Ark
So I swim to the SURFACE lifted on my CURSiVE
Not wishing to be DIVERSIVE, ELUSIVE or COERSIVE
I swim in circles going deeper DOWN
If I drink your air I'll surely DROWN
Come to my water, filter my SOUND
I am your lost and FOUND
Feel the Earth's pulse within me POUND
Circular in motion my spirit flows
Within LIQUIDITY, I am bound yet FREE
Tossing and turning it escapes from ME
Morphed beyond this endless SEA
Water evaporates to become what it must BE
Nourishing ground, rain helps form the TREES
Carried in sheets upon the BREEZE
Sometimes into ice the vapors FREEZE
The ground like rock it will APPEASE
When in spring like our thoughts it THAWS
No longer DAZED or CONFUSED
Much more aware just a little BRUISED
List of words used in my word play.
Telling
Yelling
Go
Flow
Glow
Slow
Undertow
Surface
Verses
Purpose
Porpoise
Tortoise
Yell
Bell
Spell
Tell
Fell
Thrive
Hive
Alive
Fly
Dive
Signs
Rhymes
Times
Nines
Lines
Beginning
Ending
Transcending
Curving
Bending
Pretending
Hoping
Lessening
Offending
Sending
Sharks
Sparks
Bark
Mark
Ark
Surface
Cursive
Diversive
Elusive
Coercive
Down
Drown
Sound
Found
Pound
Liquidity
Free
Me
Sea
Be
Trees
Breeze
Freeze
Appease
Thaws
Applause
Dazed
Confused
Bruised
Sorry Verlena my tablet won't let me access bold or italic.
65 words I cheated two at the beginning and added three at the end.
Copyright © Richard Lamoureux | Year Posted 2014
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