Once you've been bitten by the 'muse'
it's a torment that you never lose?
The wound will heal and fade away
but your dreams will haunt you every day.
Your random neural conflagration
will give you rhyming exileration.
Your mind is often in a whirl
as more weird poems do thus unfurl.
Your obsession to entertain
with words, will just wax and wane.
And then your fate is very plain:
you have become poetically insane?
How do we cross the swaying tightrope of creative rhyme
over the wide deep black chasm of insanity and time?
Do we fall in willingly, or lured with no choice?
Hypnotised by the manic chitering demonic voice?
The only way you can beat the 'curse':
take your final ride in a horse-drawn hearse?
If the Styx Ferryman likes your final verse,
the crossing fee he may reimburse?
The gibbering wreck says "But rhyming is fun!
Now i MUST just write another better one..."
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Author notes
For Bob [What Makes A Poet? Contest]
You don't have to be crazy to write fantasy rhymes, but it helps ??[LOL]
most poets are eccentric, very sensitive deep inside, struggling to control their amazing and over-active imaginations, want to be liked and loved, but often feel misunderstood?
or is that just me??[ ]
It's great to play with so many like-minded creative poets here at AllPoetry.
my thanks and best wishes to you all.
A contest entry
- What Makes A Poet? by pen-inhand.
1900 points, ended August 15, 2007, 21 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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I loved this poem, as I can relate all too well. Rhyme is so...addictive (in a word)! Even though some of my works start out as free verse, if it gets too long, I wind up writing in rhyme again. Ah, for the love of poetry...anyway, for the critique-style stuff:
+ Obviously, the rhyme here is pertty darn close to impeccable. The flow of words work well in this end-rhyme poem.
-/~ I think that the sentences in the second-to-last stanza (the one with the swaying tightrope of rhyme) has a little more trouble flowing than the rest of the poem. If there were a way to reduce syllable count, it might help the flow. Personal opinion, of course - but even without awesome flow, it's still not bad: I still think the words you used to describe the thought were awesome. But that's not the main reason for this point: the last sentence - shouldn't "chitering" have another 't'? (The rest was more of a neutral point.)
Those are the only things I can think of from a critical point of view. Great work!
--Flare
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many thanks.
glad you enjoyed it.
best wishes
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perfect
"this is perfect as a rhymeing poet myself i know how hard it is to stop and how much fun it is to keep goinf =3 more great work from a true artist of words and rhyme. keep it up and i will keep reading(even if it takes me a while.=3)"
shadow of the void
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thank you very much.
i'll try to find time to post some more.
best wishes
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I enjoyed this one a lot ^^ perfect for the contest... gl~
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thankyou pretty lady.
glad i could entertain your poetic soul.
best wishes
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thankyou pretty lady.
glad i could entertain your poetic soul.
best wishes
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A very well written piece, rich in metaphor. We thank you for entering our contest and wish you the best of luck! Kelly & Bob
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thanks.
i think it will probably appeal more to experienced poets who know more about the darker side?
best wishes
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thanks.
i think it will probably appeal more to experienced poets who know more about the darker side?
best wishes
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