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Sometimes it’s hard,
So hard to find,
The right words that fall into measure.
Sometimes it’s hard
For song-sounding rhyme,
To fit all the right words
Together.
Oft times they come;
But then there are some
That fall into place
Like treasure.
At most times,
Like children,
They like to be chased –
Play hide & seek,
For pleasure.
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Serendipity,
For instance –
What rhymes with that?
Five measured beats,
Two stressed,
And three not.
And orange!
How strange!
I almost forgot –
No rhyme for a color
We wear quite a lot.
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And dog spelt backwards,
Will make people mad!
What the hell!
I can tell, for the dog
It’s not bad!
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To two Tutus, too –
Each word stands alone.
In which case,
To each another,
Each one, homophone.
Yet still,
It’s so strange,
That nothing rhymes orange.
All words, at times,
Are much! too much foreign.
And this brings us back
To the original origin –
Trying to find
A rhyme-word for orange.
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©Marvin Loyd Welborn, 2013
Revised 24 Oct 2014.
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Too true!
This is fantastic!! I used tutus with to, two and too as well! haha Awesome!
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Clever fun. You made me chuckle a few times.
Ha. we spend our days to play along the rhymes and everything seems to go against us.. and if life give you oranges call them tangerines.. 🙂
hey.. if there’s no word we just can invent one.. that’s part of the fun of being a poet – isn’t it? smiles
I check the rhyming dictionary, smiles ~ Hard to find rhymes that fall naturally so I cheat, smiles ~ Thanks for joining us ~
enjoyed this very much. I wrote a poem about why nothing rhymes with orange a while back (an attempt at emulating Dr.Seuss) https://quest4peas.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/perhaps-theres-good-reason-that-orange-doesnt-rhyme-with-anything/
I like this, but I wish you hadn’t gotten me started thinking about “orange” again. : ) Florence? Syringe? Make it stop!
Writing poetry has a lot of challenges, doesn’t it? I check a rhyming dictionary too. I try not to use words that are difficult to rhyme. Smiles.
This is awesome! It really made me smile. But I must have made a lot of people mad today with my poem that included at least 26 words that mean dog backwards. 🙂 Peace, Linda
I have invented a word – I am a poet and am allowed: garange – where you park your orange….clever and fun poem.
What charming poem! I really liked your use of rhyme and your structure as well.
That was a fun romp of a read!
The challenge of rhyme..you have captured it here. 🙂
Writing in rhyme can be challenging… knowing how you want to say it but not sure what to say. This poem was a lot of fun to read, well done.
fun, and nice use of the slant rhyme.
MoRanging lOVE and lIFE is so much more fun.. than reading life..;)
Very good, clever fun…enjoyed this a lot 🙂
Very clever rhyme!