Herein these lines, I contemplate the meaning
Of verse and form, craft and art
From rhyme and rhythm often gleaning
Depth of reality, though only in part.
A musing on a higher thought, deeper study
A paean to subjects close to my heart
The ode can look into anything or nothing
And to my readers, my thinking impart
So celebrate the ode, a discussion poetic!
Lyrical reasoning on points of view
To express oneself in ways esthetic
And snatch a glimpse of something true.