John Coopey

Avant-Garde Verse - The Last Rhyme

by John Coopey

Wednesday 7th November 2012 11:30 am

Well I’ve told you once and now I’ve told you twice

But you never listen to my advice

Your songs have gone from bad to worse

The future’s avant garde free verse.

Well this could be The Last Rhyme

This could be The Last Rhyme

Maybe The Last Rhyme I don’t know.

Pentameters are just passé

Trochaics too so yesterday

Sonnets now are hard to swallow

It’s Avant Garde for me tomorrow.

Well this could be The Last Rhyme

This could be The Last Rhyme

Maybe The Last Rhyme I don’t know. (Oh no!)

Well I’ve told you once and now I’ve told you twice

I reckon that this should suffice

Your pretty verse is so outworn

So start to write less structured form

Well this could be The Last Rhyme

This could be The Last Rhyme

This stuff died a long time ago. (Oh no!)

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Comments

M.C. Newberry

Wed 14th Nov 2012 00:05

JC - you can be trusted to leave no Stone unturned!
An inspired "pop" at the sharers of fractured
jaws.
More please!

Julian (Admin)

Tue 13th Nov 2012 14:37

Surely not a rip-off but a cento, innit?
Surely not a rip-off but a cento, innit?

If I've told you once...

Yeah, I enjoyed this.

Isobel

Sun 11th Nov 2012 22:04

Well let's hope not John! I love your stuff and I loved your performance at the Tudor on Thursday.

Whilst there's humour in this, I also found it a bit sad cos there's a lot of truth in it and in what Harry says. We've entered a new era in poetry. I wonder what the future will hold. Perhaps one day people will look back on our stuff and think how clever it was and regret their own future input? Red wheelbarrows to the power of xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Harry O'Neill

Sun 11th Nov 2012 15:10

John,

I like the way the mournful music fits the theme.It`s strange the way Rhyme seems to have practically vanished from the competative scene. (I smile at the way the poets now and then throw in an apologetic half-rhyme effort as a sort of embarrassed memorial)

But there is nothing like the right sound hitting the right word in the right place - and rhyme`s servicable for any kind of poetry.

Your own rip offs show the conection of music to rhyme themselves....I wish I was more music savvy.

steve pottinger

Fri 9th Nov 2012 12:49

I love it!

tony sheridan

Wed 7th Nov 2012 20:23

Pure poetry. Take care, Tony.

<Deleted User> (8659)

Wed 7th Nov 2012 15:01

John....You just crack me up!

Good one mate.

Anthony Emmerson

Wed 7th Nov 2012 12:50

I’m sure rhyme will “Not Fade Away” John. Don’t say “It’s All Over Now”, because “Time Is On My Side”, so don’t “Paint It Black.” Some free verse is surely acceptable, although often “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” from it – still, you’ve got to have some “Sympathy For The Devil” and “”You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” It’s like being between “A Rock And A Hard Place.” “What A Shame”, maybe we’re just “Out Of Time.” But I know you’re a “Street Fighting Man” John, and, in the end “It’s Only Rock And Roll” and WOL is just a “Beggars Banquet.” So let the free versers sit in their “Voodoo Longue” poking their keyboards with “Sticky Fingers” and constructing “Bridges To Babylon.” I’m quite happy to remain as an occasional rhymer, in “Exile On Main Street” – and just “Let It Bleed.”

(In respect of your poem/song - brilliant mate – and not a red wheelbarrow or UFO in sight!) :)

Regards,
A.E.

Graham Sherwood

Wed 7th Nov 2012 12:40

I don't think it will be somehow. Yet another cracking rip-off John.

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