Would You Write a Poem?

By Linda Streater

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12 July 2010 16:25

Would you write a poem? – was the request,
Easy, I thought, I’ll give it my best.
Think up a few words that match well and rhyme,
They don’t even have to (see how I feel at the time).

I’ll practise my meter and work on the beat,
Be done before lunch, all typed up and neat.
Look at Miss Muffet, her story’s been told
In dum-de-dum fashion and been going since old.

So I practise my stanza and jot down some words,
Then look out the window, oh I should feed the birds.
Then notice a shelf in need of a dust,
And my eyebrows need plucking, now that is a MUST!

Just look at the time, where has it all gone?
No time to write now, I need to get on.
There’s so much to do and potatoes to peel,
Priority given, just six hours to our meal!

A coffee again, then I pick up my pen,
(Now how did that paper get into the bin?!)
I’ll try just once more, and determined this time,
But who said it was easy to write a few lines?