Rules

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Rules are bones—

a skeleton’s scheme, not cage or gate;

they hold up your poem

so muscles of meaning can move weight.

They’re scaffolds, not shackles—

bend them, don’t break them with doubt;

they help your ideas stand tall—

not lock your imagination out.

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Christopher Reilley Poems