This ball is on a chime clock that you may have seen on some of my other poems. it is reflecting images from my living room. Since it's a clock part reflecting images, I thought it is a perfect picture for this poem. In this poem, I intend the love both individually as well as for the world in general.

Reason's rhyme - have you ever heard the phrase "it followed not rhyme or reason"?

This poem is an Octogram.
The Octogram is a style of poetry invented by Fanstorian Sally Yocom (S.Yocom). It consists of two stanzas of eight lines each, with a very specific syllable count and rhyme scheme.

Syllable count is: 84848884, repeat on second stanza.

Rhyme scheme: aBabccbB ababddbB,
where B repeats same text.
However, for this poem I modified the format slightly because I used 3 rhymes on the 3 consecutive 8 line section of the stanza. So the rhyme scheme becomes: aBabcccB ababdddB.

No more than 16 lines.

This picture was taken by the author in his living room on October 31, 2014. the clock is on a table with some flowers by the bay window. I think you can see some of both.

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