by CatfootAround here, Western Cape, South Africa
Mar 2014 792 Views 13 comments
If Only I Was A Poet
I often wish I always had the time
to make some words to play in rhyme.
But so many times I have tried in vain
and it caused me nothing else but pain.
When I get the lines to sound the same
I often have to drop my head in shame.
For when I have my words in a sound array
it does not always mean what I try to say.
Then at times I do not wish to know
if my skills to rhyme will ever grow.
In times like this I often fail to find
the urge to write just what is on my mind.
to make some words to play in rhyme.
But so many times I have tried in vain
and it caused me nothing else but pain.
When I get the lines to sound the same
I often have to drop my head in shame.
For when I have my words in a sound array
it does not always mean what I try to say.
Then at times I do not wish to know
if my skills to rhyme will ever grow.
In times like this I often fail to find
the urge to write just what is on my mind.
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Posted: Mar 2014
About this poem:
#5Just something that leaked out my pen
and formed before I could count to ten
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Comments (13)
Keep trying maybe you can become a good poet.I for one just dabble in verse.
So please keep showering us your beautiful thoughts. And of course, your beautiful love also compose some great ones...albeit very seldom now on here...
Take care and regards to her...
your friend from California,
Phyllis
How are you my friend?
These pens that run out like this.
I should really invest in a ball point pen.
Thank you for your opinion.
I wish I had the confidence in my rhymes to believe that they are any good. Somehow I'm always disappointed with the end result. Not that I have done a lot of poetry. I think this is my fifth.
my friend..I never think about the rhyme..
only expressing the heart of the message.
Keep writing. Go for the heart and soul of
a matter which I'm sure you already
understand.
cafe
Thank you dear friend but I do not merit the honors that you bestow on me.
By comparing me with those great names you put pressure on me that I could never hope to meet.
For me to believe that I could get anywhere near those names would be as folly as the soldier who believe he can lead an army once he had learned how to shoot.
Thank you for the encouragement but the truth is that I do not specifically like poetry. I prefer writing prose. It is only rarely that I can get as far to jot down a few lines to tell what normally take me a few pages to say.
Do pardon me for I'm not trying to degrade the performance of the Allied Armies but that was only because the German Army was broken. At that stage they were fighting 70 year old pensioners and 14 year old school boys. Anybody who could hold a rifle was put in uniform.
Thank you for the kind words.
My dear friend, I don't know how we got this to WWII but I don't think we should turn PC into a discussion Forum. We already see to much of it on the blogs.
But thank you for your view in any way. It is appreciated.
Thank you. I don't consciously write poems. Just now and again I get an idea in my head and then I develop it a bit. And sometime I wonder if I should put more fire in my poems or simply more of my poems in the fire. I am never satisfied with the result.