UNCLE
by Marie Elena
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UNCLE
I think I’ll cry uncle this time.
I’m not in the mood to make rhyme.
My feet are disjointed,
Iamb disappointed.
My meter’s demanding a dime.
My quatrain’s off track
What would it entail
To get it pulled back
So it won’t derail?
I’m a poor poet
can’t afford the syntax –
All my verse is free
I’m just in the mood
To sit here and brood.
An unassuming voice eerily orbits the tranquil moon: “Uncle.”
© Copyright Marie Elena Good – 2013
A limerick, followed by a quatrain, followed by the 5/7/5 of haiku, followed by a rhyming couplet, and ending with a monoku. Phew!