The Promise
Tuesday, 26 May 2009 10:39![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lnhammerAnother time—
then, you’ll agree,
I’ll make it rhyme.
It’s not a crime
to let it be
another time
to get the chime
off ringingly.
I’ll make it rhyme,
a paradigm
where some sounds see
each other. Time
will age sublime
what, easily,
I will make rhyme,
I’m sure—no grime,
slime, grit, debris.
Another time,
I’ll make it rhyme.
---L.
then, you’ll agree,
I’ll make it rhyme.
It’s not a crime
to let it be
another time
to get the chime
off ringingly.
I’ll make it rhyme,
a paradigm
where some sounds see
each other. Time
will age sublime
what, easily,
I will make rhyme,
I’m sure—no grime,
slime, grit, debris.
Another time,
I’ll make it rhyme.
—15 August 2002
Known privately as "the narrow villanelle." Attempts to write an even skinnier one, in monometer, have failed like failing things from Skipallclassestan.---L.
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Date: 27 May 2009 15:41 (UTC)no subject
Date: 27 May 2009 19:46 (UTC)---L.