Erudition

I’m careful to enunciate my R’s.  

In my roomful of books I’ll never read. 

My diction is quite proper, with no flaws.

I’m careful to enunciate my R’s. 

It’s not that I am hoping for applause.

Broad knowledge has it’s place, I do  concede.

I’m careful to enunciate my R’s. 

In my roomful of books I’ll never read.   

As far as I can remember, this is my very first attempt at a TRIOLET (DVERSEPOETS) .  

 

 

 

To my chagrin, I haven’t tried to write poetry in a while, so I wanted to try this. Yesterday I found out that I’d missed the DVersepoets deadline, so I came here.  Coal Black told me, a while ago, that I should get more involved with use of symbolism, so I tried to use symbols well here. Welcome to me very first ever attempt at something for COLLEEN’S 2020 WEEKLY TANKA…