Rhyme Time

My daughter has been asking about poetry.  There is a little blurb on the channel she watches that talks about rhymes and poems and she asked me the other day to explain a little more.  This has gotten me thinking about poetry and how I used to write in high school.  I used to think it was pretty good.  I pulled some of it out a few weeks ago and it turns out I was mostly wrong but I did rather enjoy writing it.  There are a few that aren't too terrible.  I used an example of a poem I wrote back then to explain to my daughter about matching line length and rhyme.  I think it was one of the only poems I wrote that did rhyme, and it is sort of cute so I thought I would share.

Marriage

He asked me if I'd marry him,
I don't know if I can.
After all my eyes will surely fall
Upon another man.

He's waiting for an answer.
I don't know what to do.
I think that I might need some time,
To think this matter through.

I don't know how much I love him,
Or how much he loves me,
But he must love me very much,
If he wants to marry me.

Maybe he won't mind,
If we put this thing on hold.
After all we've got some life to live,
We're only five years old.


I went through the poem line by line with her and showed her how the last word of each line rhymes.  When I got to the end she laughed at me.  She said, "You can't get married when you're five mom!  That's silly."  I agreed with her.  I said, "You're right.  You have to wait until you're 30."  lol

Hopefully you enjoyed this lighter post and it made you grin. 

Have a great day!

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