The Teak Forest

[Koikaze]

Greetings and Salutations.

I come, by invitation, to greet you, good Chipped (I hope you ain't)

but
Alas and alack
I'm in a crack

What am I to do?

The Board's header page says:

"This forum is for those of us who like to express ourselves through prose. Please limit your posts to poems."

Meanwhile, my trusty Webster's tells me: Prose is the ordinary form of language, without rhyme or meter. How, then, am I to comply? It's true, I like to write in prose, but if my prose happens not to rhyme, I'll be a bad boy, all the time.

What's a feller to do?
How can I address you?
If I do so in prose
It's an offense to those
Who request that I rhyme
My comments sublime

Well, it can't be helped
Even if I am whelped
For all I can say
Is "I wish you a Good Day".

And, with that, I'll scurry back into the woodwork.

Fred

Nahhhhh!

I can't leave like that.

You don't know me
Nor is it plain to see
I'm trying my best
to speak in jest.