"To love thy neighbor, as thyself,"
says book on shelf.
We must act out
and spread about.
Guiding principle that's timeless,
without bias,
professed with care,
so we might share.
A visible curbside treasure,
beyond measure,
moral jewel --
The Golden Rule.
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Author Notes
I saw this along a street in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota. Well, the muse struck me and I took the photo.
This poem is a Minute Poem.
The Minute Poem is a poem that follows the "8,4,4,4" syllable count structure. It usually has 3 stanzas that are exactly the same. So:
8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4 syllables.
A traditional Minute Poem has 12 lines total. It has 60 syllables (thus the minute). It is written in a strict iambic meter. The rhyme scheme is as follows:
aabb, ccdd, eeff.
In this one, I intentionally did not follow the iambic meter requirement. I hope you like it anyway.
This photograph was taken by the author himself on May 14, 2016.
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