Dear Fellow NaPoWriMo2014 Participants... Welcome

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30 poems, 30 days; a month of poetry.

Last year I completed 30...  This year? We will see.

I'm already sure that there are 2 days I'll be gone.

I'll be off and running well before the crack of dawn.

I will try to post 2 rhymes the next time that I'm back.

They will not be poetry.  I do not have the knack.

Poets can distill a thought with language - make it pure.

I've just got the rhyming bug and, sadly, there's no cure.

My blog tells the news in rhyme but poetry it's not.

They're the product of this Seussilitis thing I've got.

I cannot write poetry because I'm not profound...

Still, I'm pretty good at rhyming.  Hope you'll stick around.

Dear NaPoWriMo... Not A Haiku

An illness has caused me to rhyme.

Today, though, I don't have the time.

A poet, like you,

Writes lovely haiku

While I find a lim'rick sublime.

Not A Poet

1st Degree Word Butchery

I cannot write poetry because I'm not profound;

Dr. Seussilitis left me mentally unsound.

Meaning I'm incapable of anything but rhymes.

My attempts at poetry are classified as crimes.

Blogging - NaPoWriMo Contest

 

Heard about a challenge and decided I would play.

Have to write a poem throughout April, every day.

I've already blown it 'cause I take the weekends off,

And because the rhymes I write would make real poets scoff.

I've checked out some of the sites that I'm competing with.

Should I even try to play? I'll have to plead the Fifth.

They are very talented - I've got a little knack.

Poets give you gourmet meals; I'm a junk food snack.

But, I figured; "What the heck? It's only meant for fun."

If I get more readers from it, I've already won.

I guess I'll get busy making up for losing time...

Please though, do remember; it's not poetry.  It's rhyme.