T Wignesan Poet Sonnet

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Must You Mileage Chalk Up In Free Verse Speed Way

Must you mileage chalk up in free verse speed way

   For Kim Patrice Nunez*, with hope

Must you mileage chalk up in free verse speed way
Let your wheels skid by letting loose grip on wheel
Free verse range’s for marksmen trained on rondolet*
Dipodic foot pantun villanelle dactyl

Cut their teeth on the slippery run-on-line
Roll their anaepest tongue round limerick rhyme
Do not a ballad begin with aubade fine
Nor drive straight past end-stopped line’s feminine rhyme

Such as painters’ coprophilia canvasses
Hide chance ironic hidden ghostly faces
Cubist abstract surrealist morasses
Whose apprenticeships lead to trumping aces

Far too many poets love the sound of words
Yet shirk bardic tasks speeding on twisted roads


     * Nunez: Sorry, no tilde over the “n” on my Mac. 	
•	rondolet: French pronunciation rhymes with “way”.

© T. Wignesan – Paris,  2015

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Teddy Kimathi February 27, 2016 at 4:08 AM Greetings T. Congrats for having your wonderful poem featured in the Poetry Soup homepage!!! ;-) T Wignesan February 27, 2016 at 6:29 AM Hi Teddy & Kim! Didn't know (don't remember) this poem was featured. Nonplussed. Thanks a lot for taking the trouble to give me a clap on the back. All I was trying to say (and this's my considered opinion), FREE VERSE is a driving licence placed in the hands of those who have never sat in a driver's seat (an extreme view, I avow, but I stand by it). Wignesan

Kp Nunez November 3, 2015 at 1:39 PM Hi T. I'm sorry it's just today that I've read this poem. Very analytical, it still came out with such grace as a sonnet. Interesting how you extolled on the virtues of rhymed forms mentioned vis a vis that of free verse. With due respect, free verse is a favorite form though I am also comfortable with many rhymed forms I've come to learn here. 7 and fav. Thank you for the dedication. hugs!