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Thank you.  I really: Thank you.  I really appreciate your comment and validation, because this poem made me as nervous as a cockroach in a pesticide factory.  It came to me in a flurry, and was supposed to be a Tanka, and yet demanded more lines than a Tanka affords, while keeping those lines to five syllables each.  So I really felt disoriented in writing it.  Your kind words and response to the poem have, as always, calmed my nervousness.  Thank you so very much.

A tale of discovering and: A tale of discovering and growing into transcendent romance, the kind that is rarely recognised or nurtured and yet nags at so many. There was a lot of talk and lore about soul mates and true love and flames only to end up in crash and burn but where is the heart of what is real between these star crossed lovers and their could have beens! And for an elect few the youthful dream continues with each setting and rising of the sun, because they together "know."

Thank you very much for that: Thank you very much for that comment.  As always, I very much appreciate your perspective on this.

That would be so much fun as: That would be so much fun as the Season has quite begun!

Rhyme is a curious: Rhyme is a curious phenomenon:  full rhymes, slant rhymes, off-rhymes; then there is full-stop or enjambment at the end of each line.  But such terms are only the effect of studying how Poets use words; the terms do not create Poetry.  I like the graceful rhyme structure in this poem, and it keeps the poem moving briskly to its conclusion.  The converssational tone of the poem makes the rhyming sound natrual---as if all people spoke and wrote this way---and not artificial, as in a greeting card.   And, as Patricia pointed out, this is a meta-poem; and that makes it very interesting.  The great Poet, Wallace Stevens, wrote meta-poems in blank verse; and Alexander Pope wrote them in rhymed couplets.  With this excellent poem, you join those great Poets who have given us Poetry about Poetry; which, to me as a reader, is one of the most interesting subjects and genres available in our language.  I applaud this great accomplishment that yiou have shared with postpoems' readers.

'Umbilical?' Our site: 'Umbilical?' Our site frontage has navel features, perhaps that's why this first came to mind. What a refreshing poetic output. And you are right, it doesn't necessarily need to rhyme except when attempting to keep to a part form. At which point it becomes a challenge that both restricts and frees our means of expression. For some people, some poems sound like Yoda and others like Shakespeare, while others still, a variety of exciting spontaneity. Thanks kindly for sharing the fruit of this particular inspiration.

Your meta-poem is your: Your meta-poem is your uniquely-you and epic wit on full display, and it's no surprise that it's a blast to read and ponder with inspiration from the great Bard of PostPoems.   From "chasms and pinnacles" to "ssoothing lotion" (with a nod to your lovable self) to "atmospheric word designs" you explored the possibilities of structure and capricious word gymnastics.   I adored every "whimsical" line. I want to say "physical" as a rhyme, but that's just a near rhyme, which was your point exactly.   Brilliant!