I have read so many poems
Since I joined My Poetic Side
It\'s been good fun and amazing
A great and joyous ride
There are many different styles
Written by old and newer members
I\'ve put them in my files
And given them some numbers
My problem is MY poems
I HAVE to make them rhyme!
They seem so juvenile
And superficial every time
I tried to change my ways
Seemed to work for just 2 lines
Then back I went again
Rhyming \'kinds\' with \'finds\' or \'minds\'!
I will always keep on trying
To do my level best
To show some depth and beauty
So there is now no time to rest.
I started writing poems during these Covid lockdowns. But my brain seems comfortable only in a direct simple rhyming way! MPS has shown me there is so much more. I think I\'d be allowed by MPS to share my daughter\'s poem (a proud mum!) - she wrote it when she was 17 (13 years ago). She\'s busy working overseas but has given me permission to share it.
Art
the writer should not be forced
to write,
nor the poet
to rhyme.
the dancer must dance
of her own free will;
liberated,
rather than restricted.
the singer must sing
with her heart,
and the painter can paint
not darkness but colour;
not blackness but light.
the musician should not be bound
by the notes of his melody,
nor the sculptor
by his lifeless statue.
the observer must look
beyond the mere art,
to even get a glimpse
of the hidden meaning,
for does the lover not
love from within?
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