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Addicted To Rhyme

Addicted to Rhyme
Hi.  My name is Mike Dailey and I am addicted - - - to rhyme.  Let me tell you my story.

It all started out when I was quite young
My first taste of rhyme was from my own mom’s tongue
There was poor Humpty Dumpty and his fall from that wall
That was among the first rhymes I recall
And I’ll never forget how little Bo Peep
Used rhythm and rhyme as she searched for her sheep
Or all of the stories from that kind Mother Goose
That led me to fall in with that wild Dr. Seuss
And I think it was mom with her wry sense of humor
That planted the seeds that became my rhyme tumor
She’d slip me a limerick with a humorous twist
Knowing that’s something I could never resist 
And when I grew up to become a teenager
It was rhyme in the music that seduced me I’d wager
Ray Stevens, Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson
Or Weird Al Yankovic, I can’t blame only one
By then I was hooked but I didn’t know it
But I was then really a closeted poet
I’d write and I’d write but I’d never share it
I’d become a boy poet and I couldn’t bear it
So I gave it all up and I said to myself
I will not write a rhyme, leave my poems on a shelf

Then I met a girl that would change my whole life
And I had to convince her to become my wife
So I wrote her a poem and one became two
Two became three and before I was through
The poems that I’d written, though not very good
Got me the results that I hoped they would
When I popped the question, she said “for all times”
I think she was hooked by my rhythm and rhymes

So I stand here before you and admit that I write it
I’m addicted to rhyme and I simply can’t hide it
I’m not seeking your help I just came to admit it
Once hooked on rhyme, you never can quit it
Let this be a warning, don’t pick up a pen
And write down your thoughts with a rhyme at the end
Or you may get hooked and before you know it
You too may become a locally known poet

Copyright © Mike Dailey | Year Posted 2014

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