Lou Pugliese was born in Washington DC and grew up in Virginia. He and his wife Kathy traveled extensively and lived in various places during Lou's 30+ year career in the automotive business. In 2010 he finished his doctorate and retired, settling in the Shenandoah Valley. He is now a professor at Bridgewater College in Virginia, enjoying life with Kathy and Atlas the Wonder Dog. He hopes to pass on some worthwhile strength, hope, and experience to his business students as they take on our collective future.
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By Lou Pugliese
I like to write in poems that rhyme
The discipline of it
Of matching space and matching time
And matching wit, or twit
The words for me come easily
Like growing from a seed
They flow along most breezily
When, from grammar, I am freed
So you can have that verse of blank
That other kind of free
I never thought it really stank
But it's just not for me
So I'll continue rhyming words
In subtle shifts of wit
And you can write those other things
That I'll proclaim as ... unrhyming
Poems that rhyme have been told through the ages and most are beautiful. Now is a new age and time for new verse, but that is fine. The meaning comes across. There is room for both. Nice Poem.
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