About
I've always found something exhilarating about rhyme, and seem to have been enjoying and experimenting with it intermittently and quite involuntarily for as long as I can remember. That doesn't mean to say that the end result is necessarily any good of course; and perhaps thankfully, it's more the process, thrill and satisfaction of producing it which I find pleasing almost in spite of the quality or outcome.
Without wandering into chapter and inevitably verse on the subject, as important perhaps is the associated rhythm. I love the way that words and syllables on a line conspire to jauntily bounce and skip along towards the cliff edge of a rhyming carriage return, ahead of which they need to have said everything with which they were poetically tasked. It's as if a metaphor for urgency, order and continual progress: for keeping moving and getting on with things.
And though I often fall a little short of the intended target, there's also an accompanying fulfilment from believing I've expressed a thought concisely despite being constrained by such a limited form and managing something of a distinct beginning, middle and end. There's a definite release of 'end-orphins' when I find and have written a tidy and well-rounded final four lines.
I've always been hopeless at in any way organising this output, so in keeping with a quest to digitise my life through the small screen, and because others may in some way benefit from the occasional vein of something vaguely precious which might have been laid down unwittingly within, I thought it time to set up a small 'hobby' stall in a quiet corner of this wordy websphere that people could happen upon by chance, thus providing a degree of mutual benefit.
As for topics and frequency of updates...this remains to be seen, but I'll try not to be too predictable with the former, and more so with the latter; endeavouring to provide ‘slight entertainment’ on a range of topical, seasonal as well as traditional subjects. And though all may ultimately appear to be the result of this, I dare say at least some will simply end up being but the babbling meanderings of a fast-flowing stream of consciousness, so apologise if indeed the case.
Beware though, I’m an inveterate editor and will be apt to return time and again to tinker, revise and generally tidy things up, so if you’ve been good enough to return for seconds following an initial helping and the landscape seems to have changed ... it likely has.
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And thanks to Wix, Unsplash and Shutterstock and their creative contributors for the attributed images without which the words would be ... well, just words.
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Chris Tetley (RhymeDoodler)
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