These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

You Can Write a Poem, Too.

For you can write a poem, too,
day by day, and day by day.
A joyful heart is yours when through,
day by day, and come what may.

You do not know to rhythm, rhyme?
Yet, you are talking all the time.
I think your words are truly prime
with thoughts to share in any clime.

“I cannot write. I daren’t create.
They’ll laugh at me of Perfection’s naught.”
“But if you start, you’re never late
with hopeful lines, that you just bought.”

An app for finding rhyming words
or websites, that can help you, too,
are just the tickets for us nerds,
that find our rhymes in words so new.

"But what of rhythms? Apps don't aid
if we don't know the truest beat."
"All words are sized, and truly made
to help explore all rhythms, neat."

I think someone may still object
to classic forms of poems known,
but still the verse we shan't neglect
without these forms to "pick the bone."

When free verse is the way to go,
neglect it not, since rhymes you dread.
The bird so caged can't fly and grow
as Lynyrd Skynyrd aptly said.

But when you'd learn the classic forms
take note some syllables are short.
That makes them short in rhythm's dorm,
and longer syllables add import.

Let's take a Bible verse and try
to find the forms of poetry there.
When rhymes and rhythms thus apply,
what joy for us to pause write there.

But when we need to free express
the truths God's Word enlightens hearts,
the written words do still us bless
as God's Dear Spirit food imparts.

We find this verse, John 3:16,
translated for us to our tongue.
The poems form, that we may glean
impresses us in praise, that's sung.

"For God so loved this world He made,
but broken by the blight of sin,
that His Dear Son, He full obeyed
so gifted from all sin to win.

"We win this awful tug-of-war
believing Christ, the Only Son.
We will not perish as before,
since He for us this life has won."

"Since God has the greatest love for all the world,
He gave us the greatest Gift, that could be given,
His Only and Only One Son, Jesus.
As the only possible result, anyone, who believes him,
receiving this greatest of all Gifts,
would no longer be under God's Condemnation
of perishing forever in Hell,
but would rather be in the Hands of His Grace,
experiencing the everlasting, eternal life
of unchanging Joy in His Presence Forever."

by Jay O’Toole
on April 30th, 2022