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Rules of Poetry

I was put in a straitjacket, by the rules of poetry

My creativity was strangled, by the rules of poetry

My message compromised, by the rules of poetry

I felt I had to do something about the rules of poetry

After much deliberation about the rules of poetry

I freed myself at last by breaking, the rules of poetry

But I am not going to forget, all the rules of poetry

For then there would be no poem, without the rules of poetry.

Tomb of Baba Tahir

Hamadan, Iran