Really Awful Prefix to Suffix … er … Sapphics

This is the completion of the fence-heightening exercise. I tried filling in the gaps with more slats, but everyone said that made it look like a construction-site screen, so we’ll just have to wait for the creeper to do the job.

NaPoWriMo today
Says that poets all may
Do traffic with graphic
Attempts that are Sapphic,
And, therefore, I have this to say:

   Sapphic poems are such that pretention needs must

      take to the fore to the exclusion of sense;

      thus the value in them is thoroughly bust –

      be one bright or dense.*

      broken, the cadence

  *In comments on NaPoWriMo Day 12 Post, Vince Gotera quite rightly pointed out that the last line does not follow the required meter of a true-key and a ducktail.  Not to late to do a repair!  As for iffy bits which crept into the preceding part to accommodate my compulsive rhyming – they can stay!

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