A fine Hungarian poet who Wrote with and without rhyme
it’s my cross, my curse
this rhyme in my verse
rhymers aren’t taken seriously
and are berated furiously
“Oh, your poem is so cutsie,
like little baby bootsies.”
call it banal or call it niche
but “cutsie?”, please!, step off bitch
just because my verse ain’t free
don’t act like I’m a perp to slavery
I spare my words the sting of the rod
they’ve never tasted a cattle prod
I’ve never waterboarded my “ands” or “buts”
or kicked a pronoun square in the nuts
I don’t whip my adjectives to get ’em in line
I stand waiting patiently holding a sign
Why steer my words like some stern brigadier?
because it scratches an itch somewhere in my ear
I know my rhymes sometimes lack cachet
because they’re little too Ogden Nash-ay
but from the hilltops I sing
like that guy Rodney King
hear the words of my song
“Can’t the poets all just get along!”
the !n(tro)verted yogi 
Good to see someone taking end-rhymed poetry straight to task. Keep up the good fight. Like the Rodney King connection with poets. All cranked up and nowhere to go, so be kind rather than right. What does that mean? I just woke up…maybe there’s some clarity on the way.
Later…
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what a great risible rhyming rant…risible as in funny, because you know i always say the wrong thing.
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Darn, I didn’t even get to alliteration, another much maligned medium of manifestation.
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lol. you just did.
i was going to say something about alliteration, but you figured it out.lol
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Very cool and creative…oh, and totally funny!!!
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Thanks.
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