Welcome to the Republic of Rhyme

One day, when I found the world hard to analyze,
I thought to myself, “I am going to poetize!”
Simplify what happens, and put it all in verse,
into neat rhythmic metrics all matters coerce.
So here I am, giving it an honest shot,
Let’s see if it works, shall we not?

Although of prosody I am no professor,
of a fairly poetic ear I am a possessor.
I like to rhyme, and of that I am proud—
though not enough to read my poems out loud.
They belong on paper, or perhaps on the screen,
on the reader’s inner voice I prefer to lean.

Here we go, this is the launch of my rhyming blog—
a place to escape, like the wooded hills of Prague.
Here no topic is too large, and no subject too obscure,
because in verse all things gain a certain allure.
So welcome, my friend, to the republic of rhyme,
where poetry rules, and prose is a crime.