Poem of Poetry
It is the ballad
of the Ancient Mariner,
the terza rima of
the Divine,
the Japanese haiku
and tanka,
the Italian canzone and
sonnet,
the trisyllabic meter
of Thing 1 and Thing 2,
the couplet of
thee summer’s love,
a
meter,
a verse,
a foot,
a
gender based rhyme,
a happily-dactyl,
an
onomatopoeic cock-a-doodle-do,
a
heart as rock -simile,
a
sea of troubles -metaphor,
call
it art, a literary phenomenon,
or
sing song silly rubbish,
but
I call it
the Pierian Spring of lexis.
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