New Poetry Form

Today I would like to introduce
A new poetry form for your moose:
Not a sonnet haiku villanelle—
I think you will enjoy it quite well.
The lines should number twenty-four;
Word count is ninety-seven, no more!
Syllables are whatever you wish,
Except line eleven, which has only six.
The theme shall be your favorite word,
And you must parrot with some type of bird,*
Along with a color, a sport, and a beer—
I do hope this is perfectly clear.
It’s not really too terribly hard,
Though I request you compose it in a car.
Also, the last word of each lovely line
Should together form a sentence sublime,
And the sentence must be from a recipe
Your great-grandmother made out of ghee.
I call this form Calvin-Verse;
If you dislike it I’ll invent something worse.
So I look forward to reading your post,
Which you must link to my butterfly host,
And one more thing — lines seven and ten
Should rhyme with insanity — the end!

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*Get it? Pair it?