POEM STARTER
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
Use this quote from the poet William Blake in a poem with a defined structure. As this is a rhyming couplet, your stanza format should follow however you use the quote.
Intent Is What Ruins
I told a lie to impress the wench
The book I stole the quote to best
My own distress I find myself
A spoiled mess keeping up with the quest
As this wench was truly a queen
My quest to keep the white lies so clean
Made me feel rotten in between the seams
I told the truth to hope she’d see
That righteousness was inside me
For me to think to lie and come clean
Was better than the truth at the beginning
I hounded the truth to rabbit this girl for me
Finally I see the fault in my actions
For to lie in the beginning shows me thoroughly
man I have been, and ought not to be.
