Wordpower for M'lady Lena

poem in iambic tetrameter rhymimg quatrains

 

Wordpower

 

It was as a schoolboy he

 became entranced by poetry

He loved the rhythm and the rhyme

 which made his words keep to strict time.

 

His talent was quite natural

although it was unusual.

He understood instinctively,

 what was and was not poetry.

 

He learnt with words he could command

 although he did not understand.

That he was casting potent spells

which tapped into the deepest wells

 

of other folks experience.

But as he grew in confidence.

 In time he came to realise.

His childhood choice had been most wise

 

and that by mastering poetry.

He’d also mastered wizardry,

 he held the power to bless or curse

 just by the power of his verse.

 

He chose to use his power for good

as any decent poet would.

 So he confined his wizardry

 where it belonged to poetry.

 

Remember poets when you write

it is your duty to delight

 to educate and entertain

 and never to another’s bane.

 

10-Jul-08

 

http:// blog.myspace.com/poetic piers

Reviews

[Greg the Bard]

This write is exceptional. I can nopt remember reading anything that you penned that did not have great structure and this is the same. It flows with a sence of movement that yteaches us that we that try may never be real poet let wizards of the word. You are a teacher of writers and I will always ready your works. Thank you foe your magic.

[kishie]

I think the poem is unbelievable as it flows so easily,there's nothing forced to rhyme,kudos!

[Jade]

Excellent! Bravo!

[Adela Muresan]

How well you put stories into poetry.

A quite enjoyable write here, thx to it's simplicity ( not obvious simplicity but still simplicity :P )

A.M.