The Rhymers Rhyme On

In twenty first century poetry blank verse is the in thing

The praises of rhymers literary critics never sing

And though rhyme was quite popular up to a few decades ago

Nothing lasts forever happens to be so

Yet worldwide there are rhymers in every village, city and town 

Who write for the love of it not for money or literary renown

Just for the love of doing it they write rhymes every day

The people with rhyming words who love to play

In the age when the good writers of novels know of great wealth and fame

Few writers at writing make for themselves a name

Great writers like greats at anything are of the few

And this is not saying anything that is new

The days of rhyme are in the long gone

But true to their calling the rhymers rhyme on.