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A Sunday Afternoon
I was attempting to write with some seriousness what this afternoon was like and add a little poetic license to the material. What do you think? I really don't like it. I have read several of the classics today being Poem-a-Day publishes classics on the week ends such as Emerson and Frost, and some others. They all have some sort of rhyming schedule.I read the article you sent me and there were some new words I'll have to digest such as consonance. What struck me is that publishers today don't want to publish anything that rhymes.Strange! I guess anyone can write anything and call it poetry and get it published. Sort of like the"Emperor with No Cloths" You think you have cloths on so long as someone tells you you do and you are gullible enough to believe them. Dad
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First draft
Aaaaaah! The Parable of the prodigal son
Irrevocable condemnation, rancid recrimination
The fire is paraded, a paradigm
Twilight dims
Salutations and evaluations, the gaudy sashay
Horseless carriages sprint hither
Noonday repast evokes slothful slumber
A sonic boom precludes tremors as
Orange blossoms litter the ground
Chickens peck, why the retch? Why! Why! Why!
They are crying, who is crying?
Ravenous wolves, spoiled hounds, canines
Congestive heart failure, a heroine
Meets her love at long last
But the arctic wind does cruelly remind
Is it rain I smell, do my joints foretell?
Aeromancy, a new word is rupestrian
A word–a-day, a poem-a–day
Via the electronic highway
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A Sunday Afternoon, Revised
The Parable of a wayward son
A sermon heard many times
I reflect in stillness, Convicted
Ever I remember the purpose
Of the church: to remind us
We are unrighteous, Sinners
Irritating obesity snoring
Unsettling, grating,the baby crying
A cell phone rings, They answer the Call
Annoyed, decrepit man that
I am, so unworthy! Condemnation
The taper’s flame is extinguished
A paradigm, twilight dims,
A foretelling. Tenebrae
The hypocrites sashay, offering
Salutations, Horseless carriages
Careen, bent for Hell, They are Legion
Decisions?
Where and what to eat
Give us our daily bread!
Noonday repast evokes
Slothful slumber
Lay me down in green pastures
A heart races, my heart
Nearer my God to thee
Duty calls! Feed the birds
But I must Remember, The Sabbath!
I sow seeds upon fertile ground
Birds flock and feed, hounds plead
Incessantly pleading. Alms, Alms
Orange blossoms litter the ground
Frankincense and myrrh
Nancy Reagan, a heroine, has died
Gone to be with Ronald
Agape Love!
My joints foretell,
Is it rain I smell?
Springtime storms I remember
Violently serene and ominous! Revelations
Aeromancy, a prophetic word
Rupestrine, a rock or stony word
A word-a-day, a poem-a-day, today
Tomorrow is Monday