Best Covetous Poems

Is it a crime
To pry apart rhyme
Stitch lines, unhitched
From native consequence

To warily marry
Unmetered time
By forced remorse
Unrehearsed
In patchwork verse

In my malaise
My daydreams ablaze
I long for eloquence...

     to drip, untripped

From my lips


The devil rides
my prideful hide
Chastise with whip and spur
Damning the span 
Between...

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(Swap Sonnet)

Azalea struts her bloom before the rose
in early spring, to follow jonquil pose
and steal respect from phlox' expanding plume.
Before the rose, azalea struts her bloom;

her fervor glows beneath a brilliant sky
and boldly sends a zealous battle cry
to power down the honor of the rose.
Beneath...

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The covetous Master was selfish and unkind.
He gave his three servants property to invest.
Each property was called a “talent” for profit,
for he believed in riches he would be blessed.

The first lucky servant received five talents.
The second servant only acquired two.
Finally, the third was bestowed only...

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