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# Indulgencies
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/indulgencies/
- Published: 2021-11-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-11-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: I asked the Pope of my religion by email, text, and postal pigeon Pope: will you call out as a crime these so called poems that don't rhyme
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

I asked the Pope of my religion  
by email, text, and postal pigeon  
Pope: will you call out as a crime  
these so called poems that don't rhyme

oh sure, a rose is still a rose  
but surely these, at best, are prose?  
more likely, random word collections  
vying in vain for our affections

the Pope soon answered me, as follows:  
though gift-less, not for them our gallows  
to err is human, to forgive divine  
though I suppose I could support a fine

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**Author notes:** https://allpoetry.com/contest/2792938-Blessed-Be-the-Meter--Blessed-Be-the-Rhyme