[Holly Martins]

I was going through some old poetry info I'd downloaded and came across something I don't remember seeing before: apocopated rhyme - rhyming a line end with a penultimate syllable. I've had a go but I'm sure you could do much better.


PULLING FACES

I thought her text was hurtful -
crushing, distant, curt;
when all I’d been was truthful,
the dumb caprice of youth!

And now there’s only coldness
in place of her to hold -
withdrawn, the cheerful smilies,
she’d tapped out by the mile.