These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Pros not Writing Prose

Gentle evening writing pros,
yet the prose don't often come.
Poetry, it rhymes of those,
who write the words in part and sum.

Writest thou the poems, now
when sun doth hie, and swift away?
Makes, thee, Burns to come and bow
before thy lilting to obey?

Rhyme and rhythm e'er the Bard
accosts thy foolishness and mirth.
Poetry of breath or lard,
hopeful thoughts or light of worth.

Lightly singst thy gift of wit?
Lightly writ before 'tis o'er?
Lightly laughs this latest bit
for poem's gone when could be more.

by Jay O’Toole
on May 22nd, 2024