Heard some free-form verse on the news last night

From an established poet, who looked a fright ...

The first poetic work he read had a certain flare

But subsequent reads were lost as he dared ...



To continue reading aloud poems meant not ...

For that kind of theatre ... better out of earshot

Some free-form - works, when thus read aloud ...

But most is intended for printed page endowed



Without song, lilt, rhapsody or harmony ...

(The flattened words provide no real glee)

But rhyme, on the other hand, gives it all ...

For words patterned are tunes which enthrall



So, instead of returning to the unrhymed kind

I suspect I will write many more verses in time

Most of which will maintain the tempo of rhyme

For no other kind of poetry is quite as sublime



- Tristram



(c) Christopher W. Thomas

12:33pm Tuesday, Nov. 24th, 1998