Verse My Heart

My prose becoming painful,
poetry yet a joy

Explaining has deterred me,
rhyme a favorite toy

Sentences locked and muted,
as couplets run and play

New paragraphs unwritten
—as verse my heart does pray

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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