Don’t Waste This Space with Heavy Words



Don’t waste this space with heavy words
Cramped with bulging thought
That hurt the ear to hear
Or shriveled, dry and taut

Don’t offer pretty sayings
Or make them strut in quips
Or cage them in cute couplets
Adore them more than this

Don’t color your proud verse
The others did it best
The words will slip their stanzas
And escape their narrow nets

Don't dribble metaphors
So dull and undappled
Or burn astringent adjectives
that crack and feed the gulls

Don’t parade your verdant verbosity
As I just did above
Words are tools for carpenters
Building homes with honest love

Don’t sashay your structured-wit
Piling more and more on less
Those saccharin synonyms
More cloying than the rest

Don’t read these little words
If better ones will do
I will not decorate a rhyme
Or write lovely lines for you
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Submitted by 11jen.helmer on January 23, 2022

Modified by 11jen.helmer on January 29, 2022

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABXB XXAX XCXX XBXX BDXD XXAC AEXE
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 815
Words 147
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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