NO RHYME OR REASON....
I don't rhyme. Actually that is a lie. I can rhyme when I do a Storytime or Tinies Time- even invent my own version of Polar Bear Polar Bear turn around etc...but these rhymes are created in mere seconds and are for the enjoyment of children. There is no depth involved at all. What I can't do is rhyme for a 'real' poem. (notice the word real). I have attempted to write rhyming poetry, perhaps once or twice. I seem to lack the rhythm and meter- or perhaps it is an integral part of myself that is missing. The rhyming factor. Whatever it is I don't have it. And it became very obvious at a poetry afternoon I went to on Sunday. A friend of mine hosted an inaugural Poetry Afternoon - she wanted to show her 'group' that poetry is more than the rhyming couplets they learnt at school. Have I mentioned her 'group' consisted of nearly 30 senior citizens? They were eager for an afternoon of poetry and when it began with a co-hort reading Banjo Pa...