Implication of Purpose

All here, underneath the thin surface skin
Of words written and what they tend to say,
What it all means and the inner-most thoughts

That they come to provoke as they convey
Is and lies the complex forms woven in,
Intermingled elegance as it ought

Be there within all entanglement’s play—
Danced lightly and subtle; against ears brought
To hear the rhythm's endeavor to win

For it, the attention that had first sought
To be captivated, endless parley:
A three step swaying that, before, began

Opening gently; progressing throughout.
Then, as started, so shall it later end—
Turning over and under, making way

Forward, till it’s finally reached again—
Found are origins from which it was brought,
To then begin within a brand new sway

And all underneath the surface thin skin
Of words written and what they come to say,
Showing what it all means, here, the one thought.


Note: The poem entitled “Implication of Purpose” was written in a self-invented bound verse form I call a “Braid Pattern Rhyme Scheme.” It is arranged in the following pattern: abc bac bca cba cab acb abc, and fixed to 10 syllables per line. With, as suggested, the rhyme scheme imitating the step-by-step order of a braiding in its procession from line to line and complete one entire set of “folds” over from tricet to tricet until the “beginning point” or beginning order of rhyme for the first tricet is finally reached again (as also alluded to in the words of the poem itself).