Here’s a rather silly poem posted after reading a lot of good online poetry.
Tuning The Quivering Lyre
What I want is to write something lyrical,
with language that’s tonally spherical,
with similes deep and de Chirical–
what I want is to write something lyrical.
But instead I end up with prosaic–
a verse like a sulphuric egg–
with word usage much like the Hague–
(the Conventions–oh oh so prosaic.)
Which is why I am hoping this time
to at least find some music in rhyme–
the repeating of vowels the same kind
at the end of each hoppity line–
Sure, some may insist it’s no poem,
if it does not recall a Zen Koan,
or love story picked to the bone
(the meeting, the parting, the moan.)
But me, I still find that I write it–
caring not that its words are benighted,
chock full of old sentiments tritish
and rhymes that are really not quitish–
Hope you don’t mind.
ManicDDaily 
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