OH MY! How in the world can you do that? I couldn’t rhyme two lines, much less have them make such beautiful sense. Your poems give my old heart a lift. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Well, admittedly I had to struggle a bit with that one.
I had a completed poem, and then realized that I had jumped tracks, starting with one rhyme scheme and ending with another. So I had to go back and rewrite most of the poem.
That changed the meanings of some of the lines, and they needed to be tweaked as well.
It’s not as hard as it looks, anyway. There are only eight rhymes in the poem. All you have to do is pick a few words that rhyme and then stuff a bunch of other words around them to prop them up.