She said I write Kitsch
this love of my High School days
I called her a witch.
She only likes rhymes
the ones by the old masters,
and the old clock chimes.
How can my own spouse
forget to be awed by me?
I'm man of the house!
It's a Haiku now
she has no understanding.
I called her a cow.
In the doghouse - ME!
and she puts on my muzzle,
to chew poetry.
I think women are
so besotten with logic
that men seek the bar.
For her special day
I shall not write a poem
hope that is okay.
Ah, the trials and tribulations of living and loving someone who is not a poet! (and I might add, living with someone who IS a poet.) Good luck to both of you. Raynette
Have you thought of showing her all the tons of admiring comments you get? And by the way, however logical a woman is, direct romance is hard to resist even when your High School days are long in the past!
Comedy and cleverness, Herbs, two of your best features. Cracking lines. Sweetly, Gina.
I think this is funny Herbert. My kids and husband HATE my free verse poems...they feel poetry should rhyme..otherwise, it's just words (write a letter! they say) . It's so funny how our spouses and families view our poetry. Mine enjoy it (I think it's more ''tolerate'' it) but, that's as far as their ''support'' goes. Sincerely, Mary Maybe if you wrote more ''love'' poems about your wife she would get more pleasure out of it! hint, hint. (you know, use her name and make it only about her with clues of her that it couldn't mean any other woman in the world!) :)
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Ah, the trials and tribulations of living and loving someone who is not a poet! (and I might add, living with someone who IS a poet.) Good luck to both of you. Raynette