Amera in three movements.
\nby cricketjeff on January 28, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nAmera perfect queen of all the elves
\nWhose books must someday line each of my shelves
\nThe rest of us must fight amongst ourselves
\nYou are the rhyming Goddess of AP<\/p>\n
Amera mistress of all forms of verse
\nSometimes I have to stand alone and curse
\nBeside yours all my po-ems are far worse
\nYou are the well formed Goddess of AP<\/p>\n
Amera’s subjects now all scrape and bow
\nWorship her however she’ll allow
\nThat includes what you are reading now
\nShe is the sonnet Goddess of AP<\/p>\n
And it may be enough for good old me
\nThat I count as friend the Goddess of AP<\/p>\n
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My friend Amera I adore your rhyme
\nAnd what you write as if from olden time
\nBut best is when I think I hear your voice
\nAs then all other issues just sublime<\/p>\n
You’re smoother than an engine made by Royce
\nMy formed and rhyming po-etry of choice
\nWhen AP says you’ve written something new
\nI feel my inner being just rejoice<\/p>\n
Enough I feel of all this talk of you
\nAnd of the many great things that you do
\nIt’s not as though all others are a crime
\nI like to read some other poets too<\/p>\n
But they are writing simple pantomime
\nAs you look down from heights we cannot climb<\/p>\n
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Although your love is love that’s not for me
\nThe world can see it in your poetry
\nA poet can be loved by everyone
\nAnd I can catch a part that’s falling free<\/p>\n
Sometimes I think you hide behind your form
\nSo we can’t see the part of you that’s warm
\nAnd yet I know that you are full of fun
\nI hope I do not push you to perform<\/p>\n
I know you haven’t reached your peak as yet
\nNow with myself I’ve made a little bet
\nYou’ll still be writing when my life is done
\nAnd in my heart I feel a small regret<\/p>\n
The talent that for you has just begun
\nShould always be on show for every one
\n Author notes
\nSublime in the first stanza of the second sonnet refers to evaporating away
\nwithout melting, for those who question the sense.<\/p>\n
Amera is a bloody good teacher of this ill behaved pupil. So I decided to
\nreward her with not 1 not 2 but 3 sonnets, each in a different form and as far
\nas I know all three forms novel and only to be found on AP. One day I will
\npersuade her to write a perfectly flowed and rhymed poem in no known form, but
\nuntil then I shall be content to have her try to keep me on the straight and
\nnarrow in her own back yard.
\nThank-you Amera for unfailing good humour, and putting up with my occasional
\ntemper tantrums. Oh and for helping me realise that sonnets aren’t scary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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