Walt Whitman & Sybil

For Walt Whitman
 
Roses are red,
 
Violets are blue.
 
Thank God Walt Whitman
 
challenged 19th century sonnet rhyme
 
with modern free verse,
 
which is no crime.
 
I honor Whitman’s free verse
 
poetry with irony
 
for the sonnet rhyme horsey hearse.
 
 
 
Sybil
 
Roses are red,
 
Violets are blue,
 
I am schizophrenic,
 
and so am I.