In Search Of Denouement
Will this piece of music never end?
The composer had a lot of wind.
Poets often find it hard, too,
to know when the poem is through.
Rhyming involves repetition,
a different proposition.
Sometimes poets have confusion
about reaching a conclusion;
and some of them may be amazed
that thoughts have been properly phrased.
They seldom know when they should stop.
Sonnets act like a traffic cop.
Fourteen lines and it is finished;
and readers’ patience is diminished.

Walt Abbott–10-06-08