Stop rhyming

why do I keep trying to make everything rhyme

as if it matters

it doesn’t make sense

no one chatted to me in rhyme

no one thanked me in rhyme

and no one abused me in rhyme

my life never rhymes

 

it has rhythm,

it’s got footsteps

beating the road

back home,

while facebook

pings in my

pocket,

the beep of the

card machine

and my head

thudding on

shower walls

 

I got the melody

of homeless yells

and drunken chants,

that fade into warped

nights on club

rooftops where the

melody shifts to

conversations I’m

not involved in,

‘you’ll never guess

who Amy slept with’,

then its 2am and

Amy’s groans are

in the street

through unapologizing

windows.

 

it’s got that harmony

that feel-

like when I pick a

song that makes people

nod and everyone’s

drink tastes a bit

better

or when the bus

driver smiles

at you and he

looks genuinely

happy, it’s

probably cos he

got laid the night

before, but it still

feels good

 

sometimes it’s

syncopated though,

all the half-hearted

conversations that

go nowhere but

we both pretend,

or not knowing

enough people at party

and never being natural,

whatever that is

 

but even if its felt

right or wrong

they've always been

there the rhythms 

melodies and

harmonies,

it’s natural

 

But rhymes are forced,

there to make sense,

of a world without logic,

with a little pretence.

Reviews

[The earth (Titan maphah..]

Yeah I respect you man more than anyone... your writing is so beautiful

[Hell in a Hip Flask]

Thanks man I appreciate it

[Kathryn Smith]

I really like this a lot. Sometimes I feel like a poem isn't a poem unless it rhymes, which is bull. I like how you weave this. It brings life to the entire thing..and it gives imagery. Whenever anyone smiles at me like the bus driver I have the exact same thoughts. XD

[KT-B]

ha Iike this, it's food for thought, why must we always write in rhyme? I personally can't help it now, when I've spent sometime in the writers café I sometimes rhyme when I'm speaking to the kids and have to stop myself and go back to "normal" conversation... good job :)

[Hell in a Hip Flask]

Yeah I think rhyme has its place but I found myself too often trying to force rhyme into my work and it makes the writing clunky sometimes, thanks for the review :)

[KT-B]

your right there actually, great poetry does not need to rhyme, that's what I love about it - the freedom of the writer to just go with it in what ever style they see fit - :)