So, I'm looking for a short poem to do a line break exercise tomorrow with my creative writing class and ended up at Poetry's online "poetry tool" and on a whim decided to look up the most popular poems on the site. This little poem by Pam Rehm came up first and I was quite pleased to discover it and not only because it is a nice example of what line breaks can do.
Acts of Love
If endear is earned
and is meant to identify
two halves
then it composes
one meaning
which means
a token
a knot
a note
a noting in the head
of how it feels
to have your heart
be the dear one
(Pam Rehm, from Small Works, 2005 Flood Editions)
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