Eye Rhyme, Two


I have much admired over many years
The essence of your poetry; I truly think it bears
Comparison to any. You have posted some
Of the finest writing I have seen since I left home.

Rhyme is not essential--as you often show.
It is a device which one must learn both where and how
To use for best effect, not to blindly choose
A word by only hearing for a poem's line's caboose.

When you act so strongly, my colleague to reprove
For his use of eye rhyme in his poem just above,
I feel I must take action. I think the poem works.
That should measure quality, not whether knives and forks

Are placed just so in proper setting of the table.
If the food tastes good I only want them to be useable.
I entered these realms during a time when you were gone,
But I have read your poetry from thirteen-twenty-one.

You are a true master. Forure has posted thrice.
Don't discourage him with a misplaced avarice
For public admiration. Also please rescind
Your threat against "ballet"-rhymers; I'm sure that I can find

Somewhere within your work a passage just as bad
An offence against grammar and style, or maybe a whole wad.
Indeed "indeed" and "deed" measure up far worse;
I won't look for too many, 'twould be beating a dead horse.


Penned by my hand on the 25th of Glacian, in the year 412 AF.