The Sprout

Ode To The Couplet

Posted by archifCLICarchive from National - Published on 03/02/2011 at 11:30
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I’ve never been a huge fan of the rhyme,
To tell you the truth it’s a waste of time.
Why bother to sit and think for so long?
Whatever you coin is bound to be wrong.
Dictionaries and thesauri by your side,
To use one so often would damage my pride.
Sonnets and epics make my brain ache.
Why not just show your feeling for goodness sake!
To whine on for hours and hours on end
About wanting your lover or missing your friend.
You aren’t doing much credit by thinking so much
About which couplet would add the right touch
To your lovers lip, or your friend’s sweet voice.
At the end of the day, there should be no choice.
Just say what you feel and not what you think.
Don’t spend hours simply trying to link
The summer’s day to the setting sun
Or the waning moon - just get it done!
If I were to dedicate this poem to my love,
I would not mention the wings of a dove
Soaring above the clouds and the stars.
Imagery like that is a pain in the arse.
I would simply say what I set down to say,
About how I love him day by day.
No cupids, no choirs, no beauteous flowers,
No sitting with a quill and penning for hours.
Just a simple translation of my undying feeling;
Of how his one touch could set my heart reeling.
His eye meeting mine making my heart skip a beat,
So much so I can barely balance my feet.
You think I’m a hypocrite I bet,
I mean all of a sudden I’ve let
My passion, my love, my emotion climb,
And would you just look at that, I’m speaking in rhyme!
Okay so maybe there’s call now and then
For thinking a little before setting your pen.
But wait for it reader for I’m not through here,
I have one more quibble, if you’ll give me your ear:
No matter how beautiful rhyming may be,
Whether Shakespeare or Pope or now even me,
Please bear this one small fact in mind,
An annoying one too I think you’ll find,
What if my lover’s fair hair was orange?