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Can someone tell me, please?

What is this poem? Does it

have a defined style? Format?

Is the syntax right no matter

what the verse's reason?

Need one categorize, and why?

And can some woman's spoken voice,

a charming stranger's accent, please translate,

read words with rolling r's,

make poetic moves like chords

flow smoothly from syllabic line to line,

stanza to stanza, imbibe, invoke the

reader's heart, illuminate

a foreign writer's world with

diversity in free verse or metered rhymes,

through new eyes, new ears,

yet still express

the constant same:

our human joys and fears?

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©barbaraataylorjanuary2004