Tasty: A Tango

Words slipping through your sweet, lying tongue,
smell as fragrant as wildflowers in bloom.
But when they went inside my heart and my mind,
your tasty letters are cursed with unending gloom.

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In response to OctPoWriMo 2016 by Morgan Dragonwillow‘s Day 6.

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The Tango is an invented stanzaic form introduced by Chiquita LoJuana Gonzolas Sills.

The Tango is:

• stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains.
• syllabic, 9-10-11-12 syllables per line.
• rhymed, xaxa xbxb etc. x being unrhymed.

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