Six Poems For Poetry Chicago Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDCEBFGBBD HIJKLMNOPQRJST UVVW IXISYZA2B2 C2D2E2DF2BG2DH2I2 J2XK2L2NDM2N2C2OO2N2 P2Q2OONR2S2OO2T2J2GU 2V2W2X2Y2

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Limon tree very prettyB
And the limon flower is sweetC
But the fruit of the poor lemonD
Is impossible to eatC
In Riverside we saved the oranges first by smudging and leftE
the lemons last to fend for them selves They didn t usuallyB
A no good crop Smudge potsF
Didn t rouse them The musicG
Is right though The lemon treeB
Could branch off into real magic Each flower in place WeB
Were sickened by the old lemonD
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Pieces of the past arising out of the rubble Which evokes EliotH
and then evokes Suspicion Ghosts all of them Doers of noI
goodJ
The past around us is deeper thanK
Present events defy us the pastL
Has no such scruples No funeral processions for him He diedM
in agony The cock under the thumbN
Rest us as corpsesO
We poetsP
Vain wordsQ
For a funeral as I live and breathe and speakR
Of goodJ
And impossibleS
DimensionsT
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In the far fat Vietnamese jungles nothing growsU
In Guadacanal nothing grew but a kind of shrubbery that wasV
like the bar conversation of your best friend who wasV
not able to talkW
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Sheets to the wind NoI
Wind being presentX
NoI
Lifeboats being present A jungleS
Can t use life boats DeadY
From whatever bullets the snipers were EachZ
Side of themselves SafeA2
Ly deliveredB2
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The rind also called the skin of the lemon is difficult toC2
understandD2
It goes around itself in an oval quite unlike the orange which asE2
anyone can tell is a fruit easily to be eatenD
It can be crushed in canneries into all sorts of extracts which areF2
still not lemons Oranges have no such fate They re prettyB
much the same as they were Culls become frozen orangeG2
juice The best oranges are eatenD
It s the shape of the lemon I guess that causes trouble It sH2
ovalness it s rind This is where my love somehow stopsI2
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A moment s rest I can t get a moment s rest without sleepingJ2
with you Yet each momentX
Seems so hard to figure ClocksK2
Tell time In elaborate ceremonial they tick the seconds offL2
what was to comeN
Wake us at six in the morning with messages someone had givenD
them the night beforeM2
To pierce the darkness you need a clock that tells good timeN2
Something in the morning to hold on toC2
As one gets craftier in poetry one sees the obvious messagesO
cocks for clocks but one forgets the love that gave themO2
TimeN2
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The moment s rest And the bodies entangled and yet notP2
entangled in sleeping Could we getQ2
Out of our skins and dance The bedclothesO
So awry that they seem like two skinsO
Or all the sorts of skins that we wore wear the orgasmN
wanted to wear or would be wearing So utterly tangledR2
A bad dreamS2
A moment s rest The skinsO
All of themO2
NearT2
I saw the ghost of myself and the ghost of yourself dancingJ2
without musicG
WithU2
OutV2
SkinW2
A good dream TheX2
Moment s restY2

Jack Spicer



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