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Rhyming Simon

I am seriously out of kilter with the poetry glitterati, my poems have lines that sometimes rhyme, so therefore are not arty farty. I discourse on experiences that have happened to me, I know bugger all about Dionysus or Beerbohm Tree. What the hells metre and scansion and strength? Some of the lines that I write are not even the same length. But I have a compunction to write it all down, every adjective, verb, conjunction and noun. And hope in the end it makes sense to me, an echo from my past, like climbing a tree, or jumping a brook, or making a camp, or some half remembered meeting with a scary old tramp. It just pours out from my brain and onto the page, nostalgia or jealousy, humour or rage. I have no control but must bow to the lust of my compulsive master before I am dust and hope what is left makes sense of it all, my reason for being, for answering the call to forget my upbringing and working class rules that taught me that poetry was for wastrels and fools. So judge not my rude scrawling or lack of comprehension or the fact that in my writings nowhere do I mention Greek gods or Roman deities - or my lack of clever prose, I've tried really hard to write like that, God in heaven knows but it always ends up doggerel and I really haven't the time to alter now the way I write, so I'll just have to let it - rhyme.

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Date: 10/2/2020 2:13:00 PM
I'm back again. Love the way you write and the tales you tell. I often over think when I write mine but your pen flows beautifully, Emilia : ) x
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John Jones
Date: 10/2/2020 2:36:00 PM
Are we on the clock here? If so I’ll keep it short lol. Seriously, you do my ego a power of good Emilia, thank you x

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