Like a river
Whose water flows
Ever so slowly,
Are my pens' letters
When I've time to think;
Like free speech
Emanating
In no hurry,
Is my quill
When I don't rhyme.
But when I rhyme
I have no time -
My pen and ink
Can't stop to think -
It must work,
It must go;
Like a stream,
It should flow;
I can't say
What I want,
I must fit
All my rant,
Into sentences exactly the same size,
Or they might think that I'm not very wise.
So I stop -
And start again,
My heart -
It speaks
Its own language -
Unconformed.
Then I feel
Truly free -
My hand extends
The heart of me.
:) and now you know what i was talking about. good job.
ReplyDeleteThe point of this poem is its irony. The punchline about why poems shouldn't rhyme (then I feel truly free,etc.) - rhymes itself. I'm just making fun...
ReplyDeletethen in that case- how rude.
ReplyDeletedoesnt make sense: "But when I rhyme I have no time -My pen and ink Can't stop to think -"
you are saying that when you rhyme you cant write what you want to.
I'm describing the feeling of the one who writes rhyming poetry and feels that it limits him. That part I am not saying in jest. I am however trying to bring it out in a humorous way, as I believe I described the opposite feeling in the first Arythmaahem poem.
ReplyDeleteCorrect me if I'm wrong...
ya i get it now. i just dont follow your thought process.
ReplyDeleteIt's more or less like this:
ReplyDeleteA poem about how bad non-rhyming poems are which (partially) doesn't rhyme, and a poem about how bad rhyming poems are, which (partially) rhymes itself.
so either you have no opinion on the matter, or you cant make up your mind about it.
ReplyDeleteI'm not putting out my opinion on the matter, rather I'm trying to describe the feeling of someone who either does or does not like to rhyme poetry.
ReplyDeleteAs for myself, I think I'd spend more time writing a non rhyming poem; I believe they're harder to write. What I don't like is when people think that non rhyming poetry has no structure so they write whatever they want. Looking at the great poets you'll see that non rhyming poetry is also rigid in the sense that layout, wording, spacing etc. is very much deliberated; it's really not free other than the fact that it doesn't rhyme.
ok you have a point.
ReplyDeletethen again, a good writer can pull it off.