My Lucid Reality

This week I took a minute to look at some of the really great mangled poems of our time.  What I discovered makes a really fantastic mangled poem is distraction.  This is when someone starts to write about one thing, and halfway through the subject changes, it is similar to the “rhyme no matter what” style.   This kind of poem occurs often when you start a poem with great intent, then come back to it with much less focus and drive.  In many ways these poems do not follow an intelligent line of thought, and it is to this kind of poem that I pay homage today. 

The Rhyme scheme for this poem is ‘a – b – a – b – a – b’

The night holds the key
To passion like fire
I roar like the sea
I have one desire
About a quilting bee
“Does a bee quilt?” I inquire

This poem seems out of place and confusing, but takes place mostly in songs where a “really great hook” doesn’t exactly match anything else at all… but it’s a great hook.