Hail the global Poetry Day!
Set your syllables in order
Sort old, lost rhymes, blow dust away
Print a pretty, fern-filled border
Proudly pick out your best poem
Buy, and unwrap, a gold, fine frame
On the wall, enhance your sweet home
In a child's eyes, you have found fame.
The world's best poem is mother's
Like cooking, hers outshines others.
Except gran's historic pleasure
Awesome as a Roman treasure.
-ends-
Copyright Angela Lansbury 2023 March 21st.
Author's comment
The word International pushed the syllable count up to 10 from 8, so I changed the word to global.
I now see other on The Fertile Brains in WhatsApp calling World Poetry Day. I thought that so long as the correct term was in the title, that was good enough.
A couplet or four line verse is enhanced by a nature scene background or border.
Unwrap the frame because I often buy a frame which is too good for any item which needs framing. The new frame lies in its dust-defying wrapper. But if it deserves framing, it deserves a good frame. The old, improved, poem has been elevated to wall status and deserves the special saved frame, which clears clutter.
Just as every mother and grandmother thinks her toddler's daub is a masterpiece, each child thinks a poem written by an adult and printed is genius. Children's or child's?
I tried alternating the rhymes of the couplets lines in the last verse from aa bb to abab, but the aa bb made better sense and had more impact. Any purist editor who hates couplets is welcome to move those lines around. So long as I get the credit.
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