Along the flats of the Mississippi, just below downtown ST. Paul, Minnesota, is where I took this photograph. It was about an hour before sundown, and sun was reflecting off the Comcast building. The bridge in the background is the Robert Street bridge. I wanted this poem to sketch the images captured here.

This poem is an Ends Edge Poem.
The Ends Edge was created by the poet Vroom. I was introduced to it by Gungalo. It consists of the first word of each line of the poem rhyming with the last word of the previous line. Typically, when you rhyme these connecting lines, you don't need to to rhyme the end lines. There is no requirement for line length or syllable count. I imagine that short lines work best for this format, as then the connection becomes most apparent, but feel free to experiment.

For this poem I chose to use rhyme on the end line as well as the connecting rhymes, which adds difficulty. I also closed it with a set of rhyming couplets, but that's not a requirement of the format. So, the rhyme scheme of this poem is: ababa cdcdc efefe aa.
I did experiment here with longer, 12 syllable lines.

This picture was taken by the author himself in April, 2012.

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