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So far this month, I think that you will find
All of my stuff has most precisely rhymed,
But now, for variation – just you watch! –
I’m using rhymes which don’t exactly match,
Which is true poetry, or so I have been told –
Such subtlety adds impact to the whole;
And meter, which religiously I follow,
I will hopelessly mix up, so I have lost all control, now;
To this I need to add, in verbiage flowery,
Obscure utter-(nonsense!)-ances – maybe re the mask of words in poetry
Which transcends any rules of time or space,
And uses wildly mixed-up features all in haste:
Employing every obscure analogy,
Like malicious clouds firing bullets of rain,
And thunder with a rumbling apology,
From deep inside its hibernating den,
To give a warning to the swarming lemmings
That paradise lies not past the cliff,
And that migratory in-tendings
Will end up in having lots of bodies drift;
Forthwith one rabbits on with original rhyme-scheme again,
Just so that you can get back to the same stream, and then
At last a rhyming stanza you allow,
But no real sense is needed, even now …
Hey, this is kind of neat! D’you think it is sufficient
To enter for, and win, a major poetry competition?
And the Noble Prize for Literature goes to Colonialist! *polite appluase*
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I hope the applause for the upcoming ‘Darx Circle’ will be more than polite! 🙂
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It will have to be polite at the gala event however the “after party” will be a completely different story 😉
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What a rebel you are, Colonialist!
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I just about manage the wurds
Whatya do with them at times is absurd.
But I can do no better
So I’m off for an hour in my scratcher!
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A mechanical scratcher as in ‘of back’?
Now there is a benefit no-one should lack!
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I wish! A ‘scrathher’ refers to the days of slum living where beds were hot from the local variety of fleas and mites!
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Yuck with all the trimmings!
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absolutely…I know that different kinds of poetry have different types of endings but what they are called is beyond me
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With most of them, the best thing is not to call them at all and hopefully they won’t come.
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No, but it’s very, very clever! As you know, I’m a devotee of half-rhyme and slant rhyme, so I really enjoyed yours.
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*sigh* No honours and awards?
Actually, I found it ridiculously difficult NOT to put in whole rhymes! They kept swarming at me like mosquitoes, and I had to swat them away.
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