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Rated: 13+ · Poetry · Contest Entry · #1519854
A Minute poem for Day 4, Rhythm & Rhyme winter contest.
Minute Poetry written for Day 4 of the "Rhythm & Rhyme" Poetry Contest in concert with the Talent Pond's "Winter Writing Warm-up." Minute Poetry is a poem of three 4-line stanza with a rhyme pattern of aabb. The syllable counts for each line are 8, 4, 4, 4. Your poem should have an Iambic meter--a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.



I turned the damn computer on,
I'm feeling wan.
I watch in awe
the screen's black maw.

"You worked just fine the day before,"
I scream, I roar.
I sit in dread,
my wallet's red.

Each day I sit before this screen,
and wonder keen,
Is all this worth,
this cyber's mirth?
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