Painted Smile – 19th May 2025

Pick me up or put me down,
I’m not the clown you believe
It’s the real me coming through,
not the person you perceive

Form: Awdl Gywydd

Four lines
Seven syllables per line
The final syllable of the first and third lines rhyme with the 3rd-5th syllable of the following lines
The second and fourth lines rhyme.

13 thoughts on “Painted Smile – 19th May 2025

    1. Thanks Andrew. From memory the first one fell in quickly but the second one, I’m not quite satisfied with, left me thinking for a long time if there was anyway to improve it.

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