These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Rhyme Time

1. Internal rhymes seem so sublime
when playing with our words.
Eschew the doubt laid all about
and fly with little birds.

2. To link we now the rhyming thought
taught truly with this lovely song,
we fill the day with words we say.
Play joyous for the growing throng.

3. We lift the cup to interlace the rhymings in the middle.
The lovely soul we'll ne'er efface by darkness of a riddle.
However will we fully speak to those, who need a clue?
We'll leave the crumbs, that birdies seek to trap them e'er we're through.

4. Time to search for music at the first.
Rhyme the words beginning ev'ry line.
Suffer little ones to daily come.
Tougher finding thoughts to rhyme this way.

5. Compounding the rhyme
is tougher with time,
but thyme that we pound
doth quickly confound.

6. Apocopated
exploding the pate,
since almost the rhyme
confuses the timing.

7. Amphisbaenic. What a word!
Cineabsihpma, the water's draw,
but better yet, we'll find a way
to right the plane, that's winded yaw.

8. My sight can help me rhyme enough
to finish poems alway through,
but prose-ish writers are quite tough,
whose names deflect the rhymes I Thoreau.

by Jay O’Toole
on October 14th, 2020