Monopoly Scrabble
Dealt with a Sonnet and Haiku futility
Achieved some success without "thesauric" utility
Solved the conundrum of rhythm and pace
Wrote a true Limerick to redden the face
Accepted the challenge of functionless form
Imprisoned free verse becoming the norm
Judges use fingers because syllables matter
Counting them all makes them mad as the hatter
Some will rate grammar above style and grace
Others prize lines strewn all over the place
Then the exceptions that prove the fools rules
That murder the subject without leaving clues
Alas comes the trauma of multiple winners
Without separation of "the Pros" from beginners
Poems that achieve "algorithmic" foreplay
Somehow winding up as Poem Of The Day
Forsooth and a pussycat just drop one in
And if no one comments post it again
For sooner or later every dog has its day
To bask in the sun its "best" work on display
4/12/2020
Monopoly Poetry Contest
Copyright © John Lawless | Year Posted 2020
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