#slant ryhme

[poem-today]

A poem by Steven Heighton (RIP)

Missing Fact

         Noli me tangere, for Caesars I ame;          And wylde for to hold, though I seem tame."                                - Thomas Wyatt, c. 1535

Sometimes time turns perfect rhyme to slant, as in Wyatt’s famous sonnet—how the couplet no longer chimes, his “ame” turned “am,” now coupled more by pattern, form. So everything gets bent and tuned by time’s tectonic slippage. You and I, for instance, no longer click or chord the sharp way we did, when secretly wired two decades back (not fifty—but then human prosody shifts faster); and surely that’s best— half-rhyme better suits the human, and consonance, not a flawless fit, is mostly what counts over years. But, still, this urge (from the past? our genes?) to shirk all, for one more perfect- coupling rhyme: for two again as one pure fact.

Steven Heighton (1961-2022)

More poems by Steven Heighton are available on Canadian Poetry Online.

Steven Heighton died on Tuesday, April 19th. RIP 

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[severepeersofcheers-n-tears-blog]

Out of the box

I need to do something out of the box, out of the norm Cuz a 4x4 poem can get boring So i’ll cut it down and make it a little shorter And try to make a rhyme scheme that's less out of order

And i'll take slant ryhmes over exact ryhmes Toss it, turn it, til its art. Amanda bynes And to make it different, this stanza is only 3 lines.

I don't know if anyone will read this. Or if i have what it takes Sometimes i wish i took time and maybe learned how to bake But some obscure, unorthodox poetry, that i can make Because poetry, is what really keeps me awake.

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