Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Romance of Poe

"Romance," a poem Poe did write

In respite from horror and gore

Makes romance for him much more light,

First as a parakeet before

Poe had matured and still a child,

Teaching him the words to belie

While being in such woods so wild.

But when Poe's older, unknown why,

Romance into a condor turned,

Aggressively pursuing Poe,

Instilling a passion that burned,

Perhaps something he should not know.

So Poe concluded with his rhyme,

Romance flew at him like a crime.