#rhyming couplet

[cthonicdemon]

I wrote a poem for you all!! I haven't written in a while, motivation, and fanfic writing has been kicking my ass. I felt this poem deeply as I was writing it. It was like a beas that was infecting my brain and needed to come out through several couplets, a quatrains, and some type of ending stanza. Enjoy! <3<3<3<3

I haven't been able to write

1.

I haven't been able to write at all

It is a shame how something so very small

2.

As a bad grade on a test or an unclean room

Strengthen the impending sense of doom

3.

Is doom, for a poet, having nothing left to say

Having words that impact in no kind of way

4.

Following a pattern, couplets I suppose

Trying to change the world through meaningless prose

5.

Is writing a poem, the way I am now

Part of the problem and if so, how?

6.

"This is not a real poem", one could say

And I would agree in many a way

7.

Am I rhyming to rhyme or do I mean something deep

Where are the answers I desperately seek

8.

I feel lost, as a poet, as if I'm no one at all

Drowning in my thoughts and feeling so small

9.

Perhaps that is why I'm not able to write

Perhaps I have given up all of my fight

10.

Perhaps I shouldn't post my words to the world

And read any comments painstakingly curled

11.

Up into a ball, do they like what I say

Do I matter at all at the end of the day?

12.

Maybe I'll break the rules like the best poets do

But then how will my message shine faithfully true

13.

There's so much confusion and way too much sound

In the conventions and rules all bouncing around

14.

Let me write, god damnit, let me right as I please

In a world with no pushback let me write with ease

15.

I have all the thoughts, they're in my head

So save your rules for the creatively dead

16.

I won't follow your rules any longer

Tryrants of poetry

Sic semper tyranis

The poem ends how ever I see

Why do I number these at all?.

And it ends like this:

I will write as I will write

And I will be who I want to be

[stardust-stains]

I'm sorry, love, I've pushed you way off track.

Maybe so far that you'll never love me back.

[snowshinobi]

discord poetry

[toryo]

Witches’ Rhyme: Sailor Mod

with thanks to tumblr user Omnybus and William Shakespeare

Double, double, toil and trouble

Crab claw pinch and sea foam bubble

Diesel fuel and fish’s scales

Tooth of shark and tail of whale

Sugar, tea, lime, and rum

brewing in the galley’s drum

Through stormy sea and misty veil

Something wicked this way sails

[stealingyourbones]

Long time listener and first-time caller, I'm a huge fan of all you have done for the DPxDC fandom!

I understand that there is a certain amount of popularity around one "sad trenchcoat man" in the prompts where Danny is mucking about in Gotham, but I was curious about a different member. Someone who, to my understanding, is living in Gotham and occasionally works with Batman. Jason Blood, the host of Etrigan the Demon, seems like he could be interesting to bring on to consult instead of Constantine.

He made an impression on me in that "The Doom That Came to Gotham" movie.

Jason Blood is a pretty good consult for magic but the whole issue is the man really wants nothing to do with it (in most interpretations I've seen of the man at least, feel free to correct me I haven't read too many comics about him), so either Jason or Etrigan has a fondness towards Danny or Danny gets Jason somehow wrapped up in his shenanigans that he has no other choice but to put an end to this issue.

also if any of y'all responding who don't write Etrigan speaking in rhyme are dead to me.

[illegiblehandwriting1]

put simply,

We are the ghosts under the floorboards We are the voices in his head We are the whistles of the treetops And the creaks around his bed

We are the shadows in the closet And the eyes along the hall We are the broken friends and family who all scream and shout and call

We are the memories of long ago the terrors of the night We are the footsteps no one left at all We are the reason that he fights

We can measure hugs and words of care We line up shining lives We haunt our blorbo evermore We choose if he survives

[creatediana]

I know I'm alive, since I still hear the ringing; in most other senses, to life I'm just clinging.

"Buh." - a couplet written 11/13/2023

[deadly-danaid]

"My dad always told me to be proper, spent every second getting it right. That way, if someone touched me, I could cleanly take out their eye"

-- Protect Yourself || Monica (Moka) Lynn

[missingexaltation]

Over a decade on and I'm still disappointed there wasn't a Torchwood episode dedicated to Mari Lwyd.

Just the sheer joy of Ianto or Gwen (or Jack let's face it, he'd been in Wales for a while at that point) explaining the lore to the Tosh and Owen (or maybe Suzie).

[wren-of-the-woods]

Forever going crazy over the overlapping lyrics in Chords by The Amazing Devil.

[env0writes]

Spilled Inktober, 10.18.23 “By the Memory"

When the wind blows And the curtains dance, I see you lingering as The house sighs its sorrowful rest Fiddling at buttons tight on my vest When the wind blows And whispers aloud, I hear you singing as The garden lumbers to perennial sleep From the grave, buried ever so deep When I seek my slumber And feel your touch against my breast The flicker in my mind All things, of you; remind

@env0writes C.Buck Ko-Fi & Venmo: @Zenv0 Support Your Local Artist! Photo by @env0

[cthonicdemon]

Take some couplets because why not

CW: these couplets contain mentions of death and other -more hidden- topics

1.

Trying to be something I am not

Who am I really? I just now forgot.

2.

After storms a rainbow signals good weather ahead

These signals are meaningless to the thousands who are dead

3.

Skin to skin with beloved kin

Drawing out hidden feelings from within

4.

All the words never turned into sound

Fade to nothing as my body hits the ground

[auburnflight]

You already know I'm gonna ask for an Aki rhyming couplet :P

Though she's her own person, she's Fire Emblem Fates in origin? :P

Fettered by doubt, finding freedom in the air Where the wind lifts spirits, and carresses her hair

And where aside from her pegasus, none can hear Yet expressed in her song, her affections are clear.

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(I'm bored, send me a character from one of these fandoms and I'll write a rhyming couplet or two for them:

Fire Emblem Fates/FE14 Genshin Impact Pandora Hearts The Owl House)

[mykwrites]

Could I look into the green of your eye -

Just once

And you reply

Into the blue of mine

Like a soft spring leaf

And the raindrop who dances with her

Your body, more than the thief -

More than a cold, damp cave

And a pleasure

Taken from her

No, more than that. Treasure.

The hips, not to grip and bruise -

To hold, when we sway to the beat

Just your favourite of the blues

And an old record player

Could you let me into your warm mind,

so I can trace gently with my fingertips -

the rhythm and rhyme

of music and poetry

that sings and shines within

And I'll let you into mine.

[toryo]

Witches’ Rhyme: Aviator Mod

With thanks to tumblr user Omnybus and William Shakespeare

Soaring, roaring, earth unmooring

Afterburn and stormcloud pouring

Kerosene and fight of dog

Engine smoke and wart of hog

Gin and grease and sting of asp

Stewing in my steel hip flask

Between the flak and burning skies

Something wicked this way flies

[shakespearenews]

“Unwittingly, you know, because I didn’t really know I was going to do much with my songwriting. That was just a little hobby,” McCartney told Daunt. “I do think that is true that the meter of some of these things, I mean, one of the things I learned was that Shakespeare often uses rhyming couplets, and I always thought that was kind of an interesting idea…Unconsciously, I ended up ending one of my songs, “and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make,” not realizing that that’s where I picked it up.”