Written by Danielle E. Pasqua
Copyright © May 17, 2016
You may follow a form
Whether its acrostic or cascade
And a curtal sonnet can enlighten you
But with a cinquain a story is made
The Bop may be a recent hit
But a Shakespearean Sonnet reigns
While a quatrain can go on forever
And a triplet takes three lines in vain
But a triolet has lines that are repeated
And an alphabet song is hard to master
But a Haiku is above them all
While an octave and sixain follows after
Once your first draft is written
You hand it to your English teacher
She edits it with a red pen
And writes “Work on accents and meters”
But she stops you after class
And says she likes your use of words
That the rhyme and rhythm you show
Is worth someday for the world to be heard
And she whispers “These are lessons in poetry”
Just a suggestion that is here and there
And once it is polished to the tee
It will be published for millions to share