Poetry Stretch Results - Diminishing Rhyme

The challenge this week was to write a poem with a diminishing rhyme. Here's what folks have shared.

Jane Yolen left this poem in the comments.

A Poem About Art

I pick my pen up, then I start,
Should I be gentle, or be tart
In my art?

Some words come fast, some come slow,
Some are LOUD and some are low,
Some I still ow.

But when at last the thing is done,
And when at last pjs I don
This last I do—

Set pen and paper near at hand,
Should dreams bring further poems and
Art does not (e)nd.

Jacqueline left this poem in the comments.

I write this poem as Jacqueline
with a mind that's sharply aquiline,
my thoughts soar high and then align
transposed on paper line by line
using of my brain each atom and ion.

Others ideas I must not pirate!
for it would make them rather irate.
Instead I battle with feeling second rate
until seeing through the eyes of one whose eight.

Lisa Chellman from under the covers wrote a poem entitled Lunatic's Lullaby.

Tess at Written for Children also left a poem in the comments.

The heart is clever.
Love’s art never turns from gold to rust,
When one’s beloved turns to dust.
The balm that lifts the lever and gives wing,
Is belief that together, two hearts will ever sing.
Through its own device
--here and after --
One loves twice.

As for me, my writing this week was a bust. I worked with the diminishing rhymes of scat/cat/at, charm/harm/arm, spin/pin/in, and tries/rise/eyes and came up with a bunch of junk. I'll keep working at it and if by some chance I'm hit by a sudden stroke of literary genius, I will most definitely share.

It's not too late if you still want to play. Leave me a comment about your poem and I'll add it to the list.