Thank you, Anni. Maybe I'm a masochist because I do like making things difficult for myself. I considered rhyming each line as well, but that was a bridge too far. Perhaps next time...
A poet once said to me
that the world would a better place be,
if poets were allowed to rule.
Did I mention the man’s a fool?
Poets live in a land of dreams
and have no truck with financial schemes,
but government is a matter of fact,
with bribe and wine to the rooftop stacked.
Line count: 8
Rhyming couplets
For Express It In Eight, 07.14.23
Prompt: Choose 2 to 3 words from the poem, The Makers, by Howard Nemerov, and incorporate them into a poem of your own.
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