HOME* Main Poem Index* January Poem List* Rhyming Meter Rhyming reduces linguistic options Exercising rephrasing of meaning Meter forces choice of connotations Enveloping hierarchies deeming Variations of inference for words Alluding to possible implyings Rhetoric's surfeit conditioned absurds Allow layers of comment and pryings Addressing young and old to awareness Yet using the same exact expressions Constrained by ethics and level fairness Since each level selects context sessions Mentally to derive definitions Which to each level are so specific Cultures determine children's ambitions As connotations become prolific Which reflect acceptable protocols Length of lines becomes structure critical Relative importance of meaning calls Wisdom's choice to be hypothetical Living in causal related field sets Driven by phoneme embeddings to pace Euclidean avenued concept nets Of modular syntax Objects in space (c)ERA 08:30 PM 1/31/03