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Poetic Licence to Kill
Recent entries and comments sparked me again to sabotage my own poetry. So the challenge is to part write something poetic, but at appropriate times destroy its rhythm or rhyme. I found this challenging (it probably shows ha ha!) but it's a really good mental exercise to deliberately take yourself out of the flow!
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Poetic Licence to Kill

Sometimes the rhythm just flows

A writer somehow, he just knows

(Well it might be a she, I suppose)

And the feeling of inspiration just steadily increases and grows.

Like a big flower.

The words of poetry are sweet

And verse can often seem neat

As sentences seem to complete

Themselves without much input from the writer

Like magicness.

A poet has licence, it seems

To say that it’s not what it seems

And the words hold together like seams

As the poet paints a new world composed of his dreams

(or hers, in some cases.)

But today, I decided to kill

And sabotage what I write, so I will

By destroying its rhyme

Whilst at the same time

Completely disrupting the flow of its rhythm and destroying its magic(ness).

Like this.

:)

Forgot to say, if you enter, please tag me. cheers!