METRONYMS

METRONYMS

It’s hard to sing a sonnet
So I write verse instead –
These shorter lines are honest
If not magnificent.

You might prefer a novel
Or Eisteddfod in Welsh
And not these simple comments
Predicable as self.

But writing them makes meters –
And rhythm leads to rhyme –
Devotion has its power
As metronome for Time.

(2 February 2010, Pleasant Grove, Utah)