What Makes Your Writing Style Special? Poem by Denis Martindale

What makes your writing style special, such that your rhymes stand out?
Well, I'm inclined to write like Paul with faith instead of doubt.
To bless believers when I can and non-believers, too.
Like those who help their fellow man. That's what I hope to do.

For I write poems night and day just like I've always done.
Each time a rhyme has things to say or grants a share of fun.
Or there are tales that I must tell or songs I'd like to sing.
For who knows when I'll say farewell? That's what I'm wondering.

For now, I choose to sit and write and edit here and there.
Then Grammarly can add some light because that's only fair.
I'll give you lines to speak then pause, a chance to clear your throat.
I'll do my part, so you do yours, reciting what I wrote.

Three thousand themes of poetry and more before I end.
Who knows what YouTube offers me for poems that I've penned?
I only know that I'm still here, with more work yet to do.
Just like each unpaid volunteer, but then again, what's new?

A thousand hours come and go, yet no-one pays a dime.
It's almost like I've come to know that rhyming's thought a crime.
When poets write, if paid or not, that's special in God's eyes.
That's why God helps them write a lot, more than you'd realise.


Denis Martindale. August 2020.