perhaps I’ll try to rhyme my poems
like others of those lengthy tomes
by Keats and Donne, and Byron too
I think it can’t be hard to do
for when we choose to match those lines
that string between us passions’ chimes
the end result you see, is sweet
a captured feeling rests complete
and when the lines are thus so blessed
an elevated tenderness
may rise beyond the clouds to prove
those rhymes were love
you never knew
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