Christy Stover Poet Rhyme

Perfect Poetry

follow these guidelines
to make your poetry
really truly shine
      make sure you don't rhyme
      you're not in a nursery
      this isn't kiddy story time
always restrict yourself
you don't want your poem in
a forgotten book on a shelf
       oh, stay far far away
       from this next poetry sin
       the abominable sin of cliche
you can't write for you
you must only write for me
never ever forget to
       obey these stone set rules
       to write perfect poetry
       you can only use my tools! 

(Author's note: Forget the so called rules. Write what you love how you love to write it! Happy writing, my friends).

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Chris Green November 15, 2016 at 2:06 PM I have never been one for rules, though I do rhyme a lot sometimes I just can't help it. But also take chances now and then and just write whatever comes to mind. I wrote on a site once that was all about poetic rules and damn if you broke 1 (or 10 in my case), they really let you have it. I'm not on that site anymore. :) This was fun Christy in a poetic sarcastic way.