Silly Word Songs
Like the Beatles' tune, 'silly love songs',
some poets like to write silly word songs,
poems so clever in rhyme or line--
ABBABCDDCDABBA, QRST--wow!
Six lines here, three and a half there,
and every ninth word must rhyme!
All this is fine
for poetry should be fun at times
(e.e. cummings and Ogden Nash
made their fame and fortune so)
but lest we forget, poetry's soul
lies deeper than smart word-play.
So may there be more word jousts
celebrating the magic of being young
and the wonder of being old while
probing the depths of God and Soul,
for while it's good to be clever,
it's always best to be wise....
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