Couplet
A couplet is a joy to read and write,
each duet fills a need, plants a seed.
Two by two they add into poetic verse
that makes you mad, sometimes glad.
You can’t control a couplet like a dog,
no more than leash a frog, bind a bird.
You see, couplets tell a spurt of thought,
or form quadruplets, when there’s more
than one, or septuplets just for fun, and
sometimes tell a tale of tragedy and fate.
God, I would hate to see them go and be
archaic like the buffalo and simplicity.
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Greek philosopher.
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| an unpaired sock | 0 | 01/22/2012 |
| This Time (a kyrielle) | 0 | 01/22/2012 |
| Moment | 1 | 01/19/2012 |
| A path less painful | 1 | 01/12/2012 |
| A Comedy of Couplets | 1 | 01/12/2012 |
| Mutilations | 0 | 12/31/2011 |
| a story book | 0 | 12/30/2011 |
| wink | 0 | 12/05/2011 |
| Veteran’s Day | 0 | 11/25/2011 |
| wink | 0 | 11/18/2011 |
| emptiness | 0 | 11/07/2011 |
| Beyond the dawn | 1 | 10/08/2011 |
| in a moment | 0 | 10/08/2011 |
| faith | 0 | 08/13/2011 |
| Shiloh | 0 | 08/13/2011 |
| Potential | 0 | 08/12/2011 |
| potential | 0 | 08/12/2011 |
| Confusion | 0 | 07/29/2011 |
| I’d Rather | 0 | 08/20/2010 |
| Dawn or Dusk? | 1 | 08/10/2010 |
| In you | 0 | 06/26/2010 |
| alone in a garden | 0 | 12/03/2009 |
| I have loved | 1 | 11/29/2009 |
| If we would see... | 0 | 11/29/2009 |
| Hunter's Moon | 0 | 11/29/2009 |
| De la Mancha | 0 | 08/29/2009 |
| Anadromous Politickles | 0 | 08/24/2009 |
| Red Sonja (Rondel) | 0 | 08/14/2009 |
| Without tomorrow | 0 | 08/07/2009 |
| If we would see... | 1 | 08/06/2009 |
| Ape House | 1 | 07/30/2009 |
| Remember Me | 1 | 07/30/2009 |
| a story book | 1 | 07/28/2009 |
| A promised verse | 2 | 07/23/2009 |
| gratitude | 0 | 07/16/2009 |
| Gallows Tree | 0 | 07/13/2009 |
| emptiness | 0 | 07/09/2009 |
| A path less painful | 1 | 07/04/2009 |
| Couplet | 0 | 07/04/2009 |
| Does it care? | 0 | 07/02/2009 |
| faith | 0 | 07/01/2009 |
| Dreamer | 1 | 06/30/2009 |
| At Dawn | 0 | 06/21/2009 |
| It speaks… | 2 | 06/17/2009 |
| Just Me | 1 | 06/13/2009 |
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