For optically-challenged or cursive-cursing readers, here it is set out more clearly:
I thought I felt a poem coming on –
Verse of some kind went dashing through my mind –
But then I looked again, and it was gone;
I cannot find it; what an awful bind!
So, frantically, I seek poetic muse –
Bling I can string into some pretty thing –
But, guess what, it is not the slightest use;
Time will not bring a rhyme that will take wing!
I can suppose, for me, rhymes are no-goes,
For nothing grows to any kind of flows,
One knows it shows no poem then arose –
Instead, I chose to close with rows of prose.
And, on the prompt from NaPoWriMo:
rhyming verse, my absolute favourite. Nice one
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I”m afraid I’m simply no good at the non’rhyming stuff. Thanks!
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I was introduced to the silliness and fun of words by a poster many years ago on a classroom door:
Be alert
The world needs more lerts!
Always fun to read your poems even ones that over-rhyme! lol
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I like that!
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You are the King of Rhymes Col and I can see you had lots of fun as usual. 😀
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Just when one thinks they can’t get any worse …
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LOL!
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I never feel a poem coming on, Col. Applause!!
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If you do, dose yourself against it quickly!
Thanks!
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I find it odd that oftentimes
the right mot juste that aptly rhymes
elusive; just as ‘logarithm’
fails to link at all with ‘rhythm ‘
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(No, that’s not a challenge.)
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And what about the words that should rhyme, but don’t? Straight off the top of my head comes ‘lose’ and ‘rose’, or the more subtle ‘room’ and ‘doom’.
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And I’ve just thought of the classic ‘though’, ‘through’ and ‘thorough’.
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Oh, yes. Thought and taut, though and woe, through and woo, and thorough and – there is no word spelt phonetically!
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Good poem. Writing poetry sounds like a frustrating business from the sound of it.
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This was a bit tongue-in-cheek, claiming an inability to find rhymes while wholly overdoing it!
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It is all in the mind you see 😁
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… and also is
in-san-ity! 🙂
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To be so clever with such wit At least I know you’re not a twit To put the words to create a rythm Just shows what can be done in time And so I say to you my friend You did do well…and that,s the end
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Yay! I’m inspiring brilliant poetry!
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Indeed you are
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And yet here you are with a wonderful poem!
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All by accident-like! 🙂
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I loved it Col…
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Thanks! It gave me fun.
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Oh man! . . . it’s that month, isn’t it?
Oh, woe is me
That I should see
The work of them
Who hold that poems
Are lovelier than trees.
See? That’s why I don’t.
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*doubtfully* Well, maybe, if you worked at it … 🙂
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loony tunes
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Now all I need are the Merry Melodies!
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I love this one, it expresses so well the frustrating life of a poet.
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You missed my update – taking the last line to even more absurd levels, and a lune. 🙂
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