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Rated: 13+ · Book · Emotional · #963917
Miscellaneous poems which could not fit as individual items.
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#400974 added January 20, 2006 at 10:30pm
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CURSE AND VERSE
CURSE AND VERSE

[Why hurl obscenities when sweet rebuke suffices?]


Rather than curse,
Better, write verse.

Curse brings bad name;
Verse is fair game.

Curse jars the ear;
But verse rings clear.

Curse is transient;
Verse permanent.

Curse merely taunts.
For long, verse haunts.


* Written in abcb, 4-4-4-4 format


M C Gupta
21 January 2006
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