IF IT WASN’T FOR POETRY
If it wasn’t for poetry, I’d be free
Not a reluctant slave to my muse
Yet with just one occasional verse
The universe suddenly is focussed
Words that singly lacked meaning
Can combine and multiply emotion
Such that it made one draw breath
Seeing a glimpse of something real
That would not otherwise be born
Nor inspire some unknown reader
Perhaps even unaware of the craft
With a link across time and space
N-ote's
O-ccasional
V-erse
E-mploys
L-ine
I-n
T-houghtful
A-crostic
A-s
S-cribe
U-ses
N-atal
C-elebration
I-n
O-ne
N-ame
Topic: Birthday of Novelita Asuncion (November 14)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
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