The Sonnet’s curse and a limerick’s arse

I sat down to write a limerick..a tease

Instead, I wrote a long verse, taking my time

Perverse like the urge to pick your nose, or to sneeze

The poet  in me feels an urge to write in rhyme

The sonnet long has 14 lines from bad to worse..

The poet must write long lines, thought she earns not a dime

At the most awkward of times, she breaks into a verse

In her alphabet soup, there lands a poem lame or sublime..

ABABCDCDEFEFGG, is the sonnet’s curse

To make the poem fit the Shakespeare's quatrains..

She forces words to ryhme and that is her curse

In rhymes and syllable rules, life’s meaning drains..

More rules to make it a sonnet?, My verse refuses to be that party bore..

No more darn rules, I will stick with free verse and lore

A limerick, again needs to rhyme...

Has to be funny  to stand the test of time...

And bawdy like yes..Edward Lear

Forced to be funny, my verse now just wipes the rear

Who has the time to make a funny verse rhyme

Rules to make it a limerick? My verse refuses to be that  party bore..

No rules for me, I will stick with free verse and lore

Lovers last

A note to my love..

 A  love note .. that you  will chance upon .. for the moments when life parts us or separates us to bring us back 

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Something tells me..  you read my verse?

Lovers in their effort to deny love..

Deny their selves.. thinking it makes it less worse

Not knowing …cowardice does not stop  love..

Love does last.. even when defiant lovers don’t..

Something tells me..  you read my verse?

That you know we could live.. if  you only  willed ..

Could live even, love even , but the odds are worse..

Unless you choose more than just reading verse, Strong willed? 

Love does last.. even when defiant lovers don’t.

Something tells me..  you read my verse?

Give in to love! It takes both of us..

Weak willed or strong willed, look beyond verse

If you only will . ..if we only will.. there will be us..

Love does last.. even when defiant lovers don’t..

Something tells me..  you read my verse?

And will choose to live beyond a lifetime in a day,

And that you will give in to love ..however averse

Lovers can last .. If we give in to love.. today?

Love does last.. even when defiant lovers don’t..

Something tells me..  you read my verse?

Lovers last when we surrender, give in to love..

Knowing love lasts, then we lovers last..

Knowing, yes I know you read my verse..

 Love does last.. even when defiant lovers don’t..

Then why defy?

 

I  yearn for love, tenderness and care..Love me?

Then my heart reminds me.. selfless

I must give not ask..unconditionally me..

Love, tenderness and care… caress.. endless

Hoping against hope in the indifferent universe..

That love can bring everything back..

I choose to love thee and the universe, 

Not hoping that you throw some crumbs back

But hoping some day…you see my verse

You wish you had  thrown some crumbs back..

And rudder those crumbs to the  universe 

As the universe ‘s prodigal son who returns back

To love and love back the universe..

If not me..