INCONVENIENT RHYME TIME REPOSTED
I was prompted to repost this poem. Written in 2000 before I'd ever heard of Soup. I put it on Soup in May 2020. I believe all who compose, be it stories, poems, songs, etc., is personally familiar with the contents of this poem.
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I have lost more lines
than I have written
for they often come unbidden
with no consideration of where.
Words have not the discipline
to be pen and paper aware.
Many rhymes evaporate in air ...
Driving in my car, Often in the kitchen
navigating traffic, while cooking and fixing,
poems form like magic. versus take shape.
I cannot release the wheel Should I drop a plate
to make words stick - or let water over boil?
rhymes will not congeal No, so I hesitate
inside my automobile. and lose the wordy roll.
Many yell for toilet paper - Enjoying the outside,
I need another kind, such as beach or lake,
oh, so hard to find poetic lines will overtake
inside of my shower my joyous reverie.
when rhymes cross my mind. I can only forsake
Bathroom poetry hour the rhyme gifting me ~
defies my writing power. let it be, set it free.
Visiting with friends, Drifting off to sleep,
verses form in my head laying in my bed,
or metaphors descend. stanzas fill my head.
It would be impolite I know they will escape
to grab a pad, pen and write. and remain unsaid.
I can't beg, "hold your thought My memory won't cooperate,
while I see a poem caught." the lies will disintegrate.
Words are the love of my life
yet they surely mess with me,
cause me frustration and strife.
Is bad timing fate's own cruel error?
Is it every writer's inherent terror
for lines to arrive as imagery waste
because they are impossible to paste?
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