The Poet is in You and Me! - Ken Boddie - Australia

Ken Boddie

5 years ago · 1 min. reading time · ~10 ·

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The Poet is in You and Me!

The Poetry in me,

Has strong roots, just like a tree,

Tapping deeply into metric paradigm,

But I really won't compete,

With those self proclaimed elite,

Who ignore good grammar, rhythm, beat and rhyme.

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Just call me Simple Simon,

I'm the poor man's gourmet pie man,

I'll deliver you a poem with a twist,

If environmental issues,

Get you grabbing for the tissues,

I'll provide a little humour to assist.

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There are some who fail to see,

I'm in love with poetry,

This is not a passing phase I'm going through,

I've been rhyming for a while,

Taking care not to defile,

How poetic words convey our passions true.

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Prose alone, like pantomime,

Fills feint hunger, given time,

But with prose alone, no matter how you state it,

It just will not pass the test,

Grammar gourmets must digest,

Without rhyming couplets dressed to elevate it.

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Now if poetry's proficiency,

Is what you seek, I'll guarantee,

That seldom will your rhymes succeed first time,

But with every new correction,

Practice points you to perfection,

'Till in no time you'll write verses quite sublime.

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Just like strawberries and cream,

When together, taste supreme,

Prose alone that does not rhyme is just no fun,

So let's all now raise our glasses,

Handsome lads and bonnie lasses,

To the poet that's inside us, everyone.

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For those of you who's thirst for verse I may have awoken from slumber, and who have not previously been exposed to my infamous poems, here is a sampling of some of those published here on beBee:

walk-walk-walk

oh-bee-quiet-not

spare-a-thought

plastic-man-goes-green

more-o-me-rhyming-comments-fact-fun-or-farce

my-words

she-ll-be-right-mate

no-hall-for-this-toad

hello-mister

my-dad-likes-honey

oh-me-oh-my-what-can-i-do

ode-to-the-apostrophe

ode-to-quality-control

it-s-bebee-blogging-time

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When not researching the weird or the wonderful, the comical or the cultured, the sinful or the serious, I chase my creative side, the results of which can be seen as selected photographs of my travels on my website at:

http://ken-boddie.squarespace.com

The author of the above, Ken Boddie, besides being a sometime poet and occasional writer, is an enthusiastic photographer, rarely leisure-travelling without his Canon, and loves to interact with other like-minded people with diverse interests.

Ken's three day work week (part time commitment) as a consulting engineer allows him to follow his photography interests, and to plan trips to an ever increasing list of countries and places of scenic beauty and cultural diversity.

#Poet #Grammar #rhythm #Simple Simon #Poetry

Comments

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #27

#31
hey, Claire ..... Your poem does please, And rhymes with ease, While beating the architect’s drum, Your mood has shifted, Your spirit’s lifted, Please send me whatever you’re on.

Randall Burns

5 years ago #26

#29
Without being haughty Boddie rhymes with naughty Ken's favorite rice is Basmati which he eats with chipati For dessert there's biscotti Tomorrow's dinner will be Heterosomati, (with lemon butter) He listens to pavarotti And it's rumored he's Illuminati

Randall Burns

5 years ago #25

#27
LMFAO!!!

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #24

#26
Thank you, chef, for heaping praise, Upon this aging clown, But “standing tall” is hard for me, Because I’m sitting down. 🤣😂🤣

Randall Burns

5 years ago #23

Well Mr.Ken Boddie you're as sharp as ever This poem, I must say, is quite the endeavor Entertaining, heartfelt and good wishes too Is there anyone to match? Maybe just a few I thank you good sir for the smile on my face From reading your verse, written at a good pace And the comments from Bees, great poems one and all Are a great testament, you must be standing tall Well Don Ken! :-)

Ian Weinberg

5 years ago #22

#24
I was truly awash with the parallel universe which is BB. Picked up the kids and grandchild in Sydney and we all bundled off up the coast. Water was a bit cold for my mature frame (which the sharks would just spit out in disgust!) - but did indeed get my tootsies wet.

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #21

#22
Glad to see you escaped from the 'alternative lifestylers' at Byron, Ian, and avoided becoming shark bait. Just catching up with family, or did you manage to catch a wave or two while there? Don't surf myself, but either way, it sounds like a 'barrel' of fun or, in my case a 'pipe' dream. 😂🤣😂

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #20

Glad to see you escaped from the 'alternative lifestylers' at Byron, Ian, and avoided becoming shark bait. Just catching up with family, or did you manage to catch a wave or two while there? Don't surf myself, but either way, it sounds like a 'barrel' of fun or, in my case a 'pipe' dream. 😂🤣😂

Ian Weinberg

5 years ago #19

It could get better or verse Ken Boddie ! Just returned from a beautiful and inspiring Byron Bay. Fortified and should be able to take on the Turd World ... at least for a week or two!

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #18

#19
My pen, Dear Claire, is broken, It’s way beyond repair, So to track the words I’ve spoken, Its my keyboard I prepare. 🤣😂🤣 The Mac is mightier than the machete.

Lada 🏡 Prkic

5 years ago #17

#18
Thanks, Spotty. :-)

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #16

#11
Perhaps, Lada \ud83c\udfe1 Prkic, your inner poet will return when you've tracked down those engine-ears? 🐦

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #15

#6
Your musical metaphor is 'sound', Ali. Yet, a violin's strings can be plucked to make an agreeable tune, but caress them lovingly with a bow and suddenly we're in heaven. So then is rhyme the bow to the strings of a well structured poetic stanza.

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #14

#5
Thank you, Mohammed, I see we agree, That well chosen rhymes are pure poetry.

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #13

#9
I must disagree, my fair Lady Franci\ud83d\udc1dEugenia Hoffman, beBee Brand Ambassador, because, when all's said and done ..... A poem without rhyme, Is like rosemary without thyme, Or strawberries without cream, Even sleep without a dream. Call me an old fogey, or not quite right in the head, But poems just ain't poems, when each line's rhyme has been shed. 😢

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #12

#8
#10 I bow to the poetic praise of the Lord of SA (Gert Scholtz) and the eminent Maharaja Manjit. One bestows on me a kingly title, the other a knightly one. Were I to accept but one, then surely I must remember that ...... "Once a king, always a king!" but ..... "Once a knight ....." fair enough !!! 😂😂😂

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #11

#7
Praveen, old mate ..... Where have I heard "rather see some order"? Sounds familiar, coming from my house? Now I've got it, like a tape recorder, Should have known it, you've just met my spouse. 🤣

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #10

#2
You're welcome, Debasish! But I hear that Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders think your comment is also 'Ab Fab'. 🤗

Lada 🏡 Prkic

5 years ago #9

Dear Ken, I raise my glass to the great poet inside you, but I'm pretty sure that my inner poet moved away a long time ago. 😂

CityVP Manjit

5 years ago #8

I may live a poetic life but poetry is not my command It takes too long to think and it is such a demand I think the poetic is in me but alas not the poetry This elegant reality is not in this prose writing bee Long live the beBee poetry kings as we read King Boddie The last time I wrote poetry was when mom gave me Noddy So long ago that was and in younger days I did write But like my singing I discovered that in this area I am light I can't write "Fills feint hunger, given time" My stomach is full of food I did not pay a dime The poet is in you my friend and held prisoner in me Yours we treasure each word, mine I'll just let that be

Gert Scholtz

5 years ago #7

Ken Boddie Sir Ken Boddie Down Under I never cease to think and wonder Where your origin, rhythm and rhyme Always elegant, funny and sublime Comes from and creatively springs forth? Perhaps from Scots country farther up north? However, whichever – it doesn’t really matter Please never stop your cheery rhyming chatter!

Ali Anani

5 years ago #6

Ken Boddie- you are a gifted poet. You showed us a new skin of your abilities. I loved what you wrote: Just like strawberries and cream, together, taste supreme, Prose alone that does not rhyme is just no fun Poetry is music only if it has the rhyme. I agree with you.

Mohammed Abdul Jawad

5 years ago #5

Great Ken Boddie you seem to be silent spectator to pen down this inspiring post. :) Indeed, poetry, without a proper theme, good grammar, sequential rhythm or sensible relevance, is like a complex scribbling.

Mohammed Abdul Jawad

5 years ago #4

Great, you seem to be silent spectator to pend down this inspiring post. :) Indeed, poetry, without a proper theme, good grammar, sequential rhythm or sensible relevance, is like a complex scribbling.

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #3

Just be careful, Pascal mate, You don’t over-masticate, On my poems, or my sickly sweet wee puns, Stick to sampling one or two, If you know what’s good for you, Or tomorrow you might have a dose of runs. 🤣😂🤣

Debasish Majumder

5 years ago #2

absolutely fabulous buzz Ken Boddie! enjoyed immensely and shared. thank you very much for the buzz sir.

Pascal Derrien

5 years ago #1

an exquisite treat and I am going to have a second helping of that wonderful writing :-)

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