Allay
I think that you have heard me say
Rhyming ‘ee’ was not child’s play
So, chose I another array
Words sorted in a different way
In hopes that I can save the day
And yet make rhyme reluctant stay
An eloquence with no delay
A beautiful verbal bouquet
Tried wordsmithing put on display
That singular rhyme can portray
The beauty of a seaside cay
Or the mundane of the everyday
But I have shown naivete
Monster of verse I cannot slay
Around me words start to decay
As lines fall into macramé
Becoming a bit cabaret
As puzzled as just yesterday
I watch as beauty falls away
A concept showing well-worn fray
No needing to take a survey
Verse has fallen like a souffle
This curse for which you did not pray
Leaving us both with great dismay
commonsensiblyspeaking 
Word bouquet…absolute delight reading your poems Brad.
Thank you sweet Meena!
Brilliant 👏👏👏
Thank you so kindly Jupiter! I am glad you enjoy it.
well done, once again. I always like finding the unusual words you use, in this case, I’d have to say it’s macramé and souffle!
Thank you kindly Jim! After ‘Ode to a Rhyme’, I wanted to beat the 24 line repetition mark. I had a 25th line written, but it looked so weird hanging on at the end that I deleted it. It was a fun exercise at least.
I think I remember a Happy Days episode where Richie was trying to come up with a word that rhymed with “purpose”; he eventually came up with the phrase “usurp us”…
I guess he could have picked worse..
it may have been his only choice…
Surface comes to mind…
Nice!