Head in Hand

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NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 16:

"Today I’d like you to relax with the rather silly form called Skeltonic, or tumbling, verse. In this form, there’s no specific number of syllables per line, but each line should be short, and should aim to have two or three stressed syllables. And the lines should rhyme. You just rhyme the same sound until you get tired of it, and then move on to another sound."

 I have a feeling I could go on and on with this one but I will spare us all and stop! 

 

Head in hand

nothing as planned

I'd take a stand

but I'd be banned.

Stuck in a cage

somewhere offstage

I'm at that age

should disengage

not put my rage 

upon a page

I'd like to burn.

You'd think I'd learn

to wait my turn—

my main concern

is that I yearn

to do it all

engage, enthral—

instead I scrawl

a line or two 

(more than a few)

of nothing new

to capture you—

it's crap; it's true,

it's what I do.

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