Life without poetry.

Okay, recently poetry has gone through our blogging community like a new strain of Covid. 

How much of a story is lost when there is a need to rhyme?

Fitting in regular rhymes must determine the direction of the content.

Let me give you an example.*

I have two short concerts coming up in May where I will perform at two libraries. I will be playing solo on the double bass and the violin. I like to joke that the violin is just a little double bass that is tuned back to front, a bass is tuned E A D G and a violin is tuned G D A E. So, all you have to do, when you switch to the violin, is play everything backwards.

Okay, let's put that same information into a rhyming poem...

I don't need any bribery

To play solo music in a library.

Bass and fiddle have the strings

To play quite a few different things.

The bigger of the two has a big fat E

While the other starts with a higher low G

Are they front to back? Or back to front?

I guess I'll have to hunt.

If the fiddle goes higher than the bass,

That's just something I'll have to face.

* * *

Okay, it took me much longer to write the silly poem. It is not an economic way to get a message across. The need to rhyme means that one's thoughts can easily become less clear.

What are these flowers trying to tell
you that couldn't have been simply said?

* Please note well that any poetry that enters this post is not for any reason, other than to show how a message can be lost for the sake of a 'flowery' read.