If an author feels a need
To explain their poem
I realize
They
did
not
understand
it
either
C-onnotation
A-bout
R-ighteous
E-xpression
S-imply
S-hows
A-crostic
L-ine
A-s
B-eauty
I-s
N-oted
I-nside
Topic: Birthday of Caressa T. Labini (June 16)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
The tranquil notes of an artist
fill the air taking him homeward
to a dead players jam session
Visual 3
Penned 01/01/2015 by Seren Roberts
3 by 8 image contest by nette onclaud
There was a young man from China
Who couldn't think of anything finer
Than to smoke cigarettes and play with his pets
And eat out at an all night diner
Tempting it is to end it all
Overwhelming depression, Nothing but a normal day
Will I ever be able to put it down
The blade that has become my passage
To not a home nor place at all
But a moment trapped in time to relive
Clinging to life like a starved leech
It never seems to cut deep enough
I'll end mine to save hers
Once again I am selfless
Her wish was my command
Then I got trown into the sun
She was given everything
And asked for nothing
So in effort to alleviate her angst
I will condemn myself
My needs never mattered to anybody
So I will rid the world of my disease
Unless otherwise noted
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