Freer Verse

How free can free verse be 
if effervescence is mandatory?
Its bubble’s bound to burst
with disquietude and thirst.
Perpetual hunger makes it worse!
I mean no disrespect 
but fervidness is vehemence,
so loses some effect.
If amorousness is forced
it’s the coarsest kind of course,
like required veneration 
prone in abnegation.
Reverence must be free
to bow or bend a knee
like words of love in lines
that slant or fall in rhyme.

February 14, 2019
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Sheehan Avatar
February 22, 2019 at 7:30 PM
Enjoying your work. Great pen. Inspiring.
Simmonds Avatar
February 24, 2019 at 12:51 AM
Thank you!
Gauthier Avatar
February 14, 2019 at 8:50 PM
Wow Rita ! Awesome poem. Bravo.
Simmonds Avatar
February 24, 2019 at 12:51 AM
Thank you!
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