Short Story: The Effects Of Love

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Jay Leffew


How to mess up a poem


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You make me laugh and cry by turns; - I love you very much.

I care so deeply that it burns - a hole into my crutch...

(No, not crotch...)

Just like the sun, you shine so bright - in all my thoughts of you.

I feel your arms around me tight; - I think I've lost a shoe...

(It doesn't matter though...)

Forgive me, now I think of it - there's something else I've lost,

'Though I've forgotten, I admit, - just what it was; I'm crosst.

(Yes, but 'cross' didn't rhyme...)

You've sent my rhyming all to cock, - (not in the literal sense),

Your presence is there like a rock, - warmed by the sun's incandescence.

(No, it doesn't scan; it's all your fault!)

So now I s'pose you'll tell me off, - say I'm not really trying.

Oh, really? Is that so? (coff, coff), - Could be a time for frying.

(Well, there was crying or prying or drying or sighing, etc. take your pick...)

I've just recalled what I forgot,…

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Ahmed-hamid Woody Bagala-alina said "Wow, Jay and you say I`m the crazy naughty one here, huh? This is the best confused clarity I have ever read!"
2 years ago
Jay Leffew said "Well, after your comment on our rather morbid story-lines I had to do something, Adam; glad it made you both smile."
2 years ago
Diane Dickson Guest Editor said "this made me think of the wonderfully amusing poems of Pam Ayres. It did make me smile.- Well done Jay - Diane"
2 years ago
Adam West Guest Editor said "I think you were trying, Jay. Another well deserved notch on you literary watch - nothing infantile about how you made me smile - I like your style and irreverance...many thanks Adam"
2 years ago

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