My rhymes are getting harder
To now construct with wit
Why this is I do not know
Maybe I’m past it?
They’re getting kinda puerile
Childish, silly, wot
Lacking depth and meaning
Have I lost the plot?
One day it all comes easy
The next day, gone, all shot
I wonder what is going on
Have I lost the plot?
Am I too focused much on
Churning poems out?
Should I change and go more to a
Quality-type route?
I guess I’ll really never know
What is going on
Just carry on regardless
Rhyming rhyming on
OK
Don Matthews
December 2022
Flippant, Comic, and Serious 
I write what some people call poems.
But I don’t bother with the rhymes.
Maybe it’s because I am too lazy
Or it’s a sign of the times
Either that or I’m plain old crazy.
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Ha…..what makes something a poem? I don’t really know. I know more about rhyming/half rhyming etc. I like the challenge. Bit like you. Bit like the challenge of a crossword. Sometimes end up purile which I don’t like. Have I lost the ability? One thing I do know though good rhyme is hard to write. Why not many poets do it. Easier to write prose and call it a poem. Call it lazy if you like. Here is my prose poem
POEM TO AMEN
I have writ this poem
It has deep meaning
Come wallow in my meaning
Amen
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Amen indeed! 🤣
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Thankyou for wallowing in my prose.
Now you say “Welcome”………
To which I say “No probs”………
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Okay. Welcome. (I’m easy.)
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Forgive me but I have a thing about people who say welcome all the time. It’s a flaw I know. Why I don’t know?………..
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Okay. No probs.
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Welcome…….
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* don’t do it not do it
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you’ve got your own little niche, Don, and you do it well; we can all do with a serve of nonsense; you’re part of a great tradition; as INXS say, Don’t Change 🙂
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Thanks John. I think I was born silly. Like Spike…….
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the silly and the odd are still God’s children , Don:) embrace your difference —
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I embrace me. It’s others who don’t/can’t embrace me I have a ‘problem’ with. Cest la vie……..
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