ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

The Dedicated Rhymer

My favourite thingies are metre and rhyme,
and poems without them are simply a crime!
So I always use good metre,
(Bloody hell, what rhymes with metre?)
but maybe not the same one all the time!

All that free verse stuff is rubbish,
lots of ah…um…dum-de-ubbish,
and I’ll never make that leap into the dark.
Though across the globe they’re writing it,
it’s not needed and I’m fighting it;
it’s as useless as a duck without a…quark?

So get used to it, you peasants!
Like fine dining goes with pheasants
I am wedded to the good old metric foot.
I’m a dedicated rhymer
and a zealous paradigmer…
though it sometimes means that words are backwards put!

© David 25/05/16

You're a wicked man David

Very good David - thanks for the smile!

Superb, David! I'm working on a response for my homework piece ... watch this space

Cheers
Shelley

"Wicked" doesn't scratch the surface, Neville. This is the censored version!

Glad you enjoyed it, Catherine, and thanks, Shelley...I'm watching the space.

Cheers
David

Love words being 'backward put', Sometimes it's the only way!

Apologies in advance for this, David - but I simply can't resist!!

"Bloody hell! What rhymes with metre?"
My response could not be fleeter
lest your poetry should peter
out and you’d be forced to beat a
path downtown in your four-seater
to the bookstore where a neater
row of books might be the key ter
finding words that rhyme with metre.

So I poured a Margarita
put my CD on “repeater”
and for brain food tried to eat a
dish of sardines by the litre
but on Google search I teeter
searching Facebook scrolling Tweeter
yet I still cannot complete a
single word to rhyme with metre!

Shelley - you cheater!!

Classic!

I like backward put rhymes and Shelley that is a classic response.

as useless as a duck without a…quark?

It crossed my mind to ask why a duck would need soft cheese David - but I am sure you have a reasonable explanation.

Clever use of the prompts you have made here Thinking outside the set paradigms