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Off and On Rhyme
Not Today by Shirley Ann Bunyan
    Off and On rhyme Contest Winner 

Write a poem,” teacher said.
“For each of you, without a doubt,
has one at least within the head.
So write it down and get it out.”

What if you’re wrong’, I thought.
‘What if there’s no poem in me.
What if there is but it’s not ready
for the world’.

It doesn’t have to rhyme”, she trilled.
“Just put your feelings into words.
Start off with one, then slowly build.
Make use of adjectives and verbs.”

Just because you have
bricks and mortar,
trowels and a wish,
doesn’t mean you can
build a house’.

Come, come. Your time is almost done.
I want your papers in by break.
A verse, at least, from everyone,
creative muse with no mistakes.”

I handed in my paper blank
but for the title.
Today, My Soul Was Sleeping’.



Writing Prompt
Poem with any amount of verses and lines, one verse containing rhyme, the next verse free verse, next verse rhyme, and so on.
Off and On rhyme
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