“Patience”

Good morning friends!

Since it’s the weekend, I can get a bit fancier with my poetry. I decided to try an echo poem, found in my collection of poetry forms (started last April). While writing, I used near rhymes, similar sounding words and rhymes to create this poem.

I first learned about the echo poem through a poem, “Acceptance,” written by A Dash of Sunny. She is a very talented poet and her playful words never cease to inspire me.

Patience is not a roll of dice;
Echo: price
Race and you’ll miss the sights
Echo: bites

Eager for social praise;
Echo: craze
Another is faster to steal the prize
Echo: cries

In my head sounds a “clunk;”
Echo: funk
Clorox wipe away thought-junk
Echo: shrunk

Patience grows from breath
Echo: death
I move towards grace
Echo: pace

Photo Courtesy of Shane Clements