RHYME TIME
The task was set at closing time.
I know 'cos I heard "last orders" chime.
I'd been challenged to find a terrible rhyme.
---But more than once that hill to climb.
Seven to find
My target date was the 18th of June
And I accepted - like a loon.
For weeks I sat in a darkened room.
Hoping inspiration would strike me- soon.
Losing my mind.
Now a terrible rhyme should be awfully clear.
--As soon as the key word you chance to hear,
It's obvious partner should also appear.
Ringing clearly in your inner ear.
God! What a bind.
Now my forte is pure doggerel verse.
I might call it mongrel if it gets any worse.
So this was a task I found most perverse.
Less of a challenge and more of a curse.
From pleasure to grind.
Still I was over half way there.
I had 4 in each verse not just a pair.
Which went with which I could no longer care.
If I had to choose only 2 I'd soon start to swear.
Time to unwind.
If you think I'm starting to lay it on thick.
Well. This is one piece of poetry that's got on my wick.
Like it or lump it. You must take your pick.
As for me I'm feeling a bit sick.
Not very refined.
At these last rhymes I've had to slave.
It was sending me off to an early grave.
Just one last bit and then I'll behave.
Did I pass the test. Your approval I crave.
Please be kind.
Author notes
Some folk just hate rhyme. I don't.
The challenge was set and met as described
In a list
What did you think
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Jim...as you should know by now I just love rhyme and you are the greatest!
your friend in writing
T.C.Scott
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Thanks. Flattery will get you everywhere.
Jim
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You do great job on rhyming your poems. That is your talented. My talent is writing free verse poems not rhyming poems. I do both.
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Thanks for those kind words. Yes, as the name suggests, I prefer rhyming poetry.
BTW this is a true poem and the challenge was set in a filk club where I used to recite my work.
Jim
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Glad you liked this one Doug.
I've also tried to fly free with this allpoetry.com/poem/1403387 if you're interested.
Jim S -
Yes, this is quite amusing. Personally, I like rhymes as well, and free verse. Both styles are uniquely challenging in their own right.
Fun work with this one!
peace
doug
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I adore rhyming prose, and this is an amusing and very good effort.
Robert Frost said that "writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down".
I totally agree.
I am sick to death of reading absolute tripe on here, with an author's comment such as "I just wrote down what came into my head - it's NOTHING to do with me"!
ANYONE IMO can write free verse - even, I suspect, a monkey!
Well done with this, and keep it up.
R. -
Don't I know that some people hate rhymes! Though I have ventured into short non-rhyming form poetry and into free verse as well, my heart is in rhyming poetry in all structures. The first poem I ever wrote was in rhyme and I am pretty sure the last I ever write will be as well.
You have managed the key point I try to cover when teaching anyone rhyme techniques with this... that is to never stray from your subject to make a rhyme work.
I can't call this a terrible rhyme, because they rhymes don't clash with each other and the topic isn't compromised to force a rhyme. The lines are resonably the same length and so the flow isn't hard to follow.
A good try at terrible rhyme.
Best wishes and
s... ~genielassie~
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