ACCENT ON POETRY.

ACCENT ON POETRY.

A verse or six I need to write
Hoping they won't upset friends
Who read my poems day and night
And complain how each line ends.

My Aussie accent governs a word
I use to write in rhyme.
Though often that word is absurd
To the majority everytime.

When a poem that I write
Should end a line with "doors"
The natural rhyme for me to cite
Would have to be "because".

When reading verse from others, see,
I get it in my head
That a line could never rhyme with "ZEE"
'Cause in Australia, we say "ZED".

I do not wish to gripe or groan
'Bout ratings which fall to three
When I speak a language of my own
And the rhyme sounds right to me.

I'll make allowances for your speech
If you'll make some for mine.
And a compromise I think we'll reach
Then things will be just fine.

Cheers Meg.






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