Making the best of 25 lines

25 lines is the new norm

Desired by editors for submissions

Of poetry lest it running amuck awfully lengthy!

It’s prudent to accept the challenge

To make the best of 25 lines

25 lines is all I get to express

I am to fall in love, romance,

capture nature at it’s best

Emote with joy, laugher, sorrow,

Tears all in 25 lines!

The restriction seems outrageous

Stemming the free flow of words

In hindsight it appears

25 is more than enough

For a powerful portrayal

For an infertile mind

Even the 25 may seem hard

To fill up words, finish the lines

For such it’s a real blessing

To scrape through with relief!

These are the times of brevity

To accommodate more poems

In anthologies to provide opportunity

To more authors in one book, just fly

with colourful wings in the space of  25!

-Mohan Sanjeevan