Decided to do a 10 minute tippedy tap for National Poetry Day.
Ended up with a short poem as introduction to a longer poem. No, I don’t know what I was thinking either. Enjoy!
The “roses are red” style of poem
Has oft driven me to distraction
Being largely factually innacurate
But i’ve not, up to now, taken action
To correct the various errors
In the four line verses we all scribble
But that ends today
I’m so glad to say,
As I poetically offer a quibble…
Often, it’s said
that roses are red
And violets, bizarrely, are blue.
Of course, we all know,
that it’s not always so
and both of them vary in hue.
Roses can be
many colours, you see
And violets, likewise, can vary.
Having said that, I guess
to attempt to compress
All of that into rhyme, is quite scary
A tricky prospect, no doubt
When one’s laying out
A simple poetic endeavour
To attempt to include
The various hues
Into four short lines WOULD be clever
T’would be quite the trick
But the thought makes me sick
And I mutter, quite quietly, a curse
As my heart rate increases
I quite fall to pieces
At the prospect of writing such verses
Roses, not red
But purple instead
And violets of green and of yellow
Not to mention the pink
For the roses, I think
“THERE ARE TOO MANY COLOURS!” I bellow
It was simpler, I own
With one colour alone
For each of the flowers i’ve mentioned
I think that I ought
perhaps not to have brought
this minor detail to attention
Now, my head surely aches
and my writing hand shakes
But there is just one thing left to be said
From now on, it’ll do
To say violets are blue
And all bloody roses are red!
