Verse My Heart

by Kurt Philip Behm

February 11, 2020

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)

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Annette M VelasquezFeb 11, 2020

Strong sentiment, smooth rhyme and good word choice. The last line, does sound a bit antiquated though. The sentence structure being reversed in order to stick to the rhyme scheme... how about ( "as verse my heart prays" or, "for verse my heart prays?")