Metrophobia

ABC WEDNESDAY

METROPHOBIA

(The fear of poetry)

To think that there could actually be

People afraid of poetry!

I can understand being just luke-warm

About this literary form.

There are some who think there's nothing worse

Than reading lines of rhyming verse.

I understand that attitude

Although I think their taste is crude!

But to be afraid! That's quite excessive!

My verses may not be impressive

But surely no-one shakes with fright

When they read the words I write!

Do they cower beneath the bed

When words in rhyme are heard or read?

Although I know it seems absurd,

Metrophobia is a word!

'Fear of poetry'.....it exists!

Add it to your strange-word list.

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                                       Margaret Gosden

THE GREAT INVENTOR

The sky invented geometry,

That is plain to see.

Angles and dissections,

Perfect geometry.

Some lines may be man-made,

Hanging there on high,

But the canvas shows the blue and gold

Of an English summer sky.

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