Metapoetry #4 - Silly Sounds

Just click on the image to read the poems.

Sometimes a rhyming poem can be downright embarrassing. I think it is the rhythm of the heartbeat, driving for congruence, that makes us look for meter and rhyme when suddenly we find a poem spilling forth from the pen. And yes, because of this, sometimes it can be just plain silliness. Just as the tongue plays to wrap itself around a twister, so the poem can twist and contort to make the sound come forth, just so. We know about alliteration and onomatopoeia - and my point is that these are really seldom conscious with this poet. I seem to hear my poems unfold from within my mind. And sometimes, not every time, the silliness of the sound just takes over! The message, and even the thought, actually becomes secondary.

So don't take these too seriously. Poems work best read aloud, but nobody wants to listen to poems while trying to gulp down some Grisham or Brown on the eight fifteen into the city. So, mouthe the poems. You'll look wierd, but you'll get to hear the silly little sounds that way.