Let’s Go Musical at Paper Poetry
The Da-DUMs of My Earworm
Thanks a lot, William Shakespeare!
I’ve not been one who’s musically inclined
My head’s a sieve that cannot hold a tune
Odd songs and melodies drift and combine
I wonder if I belong on the moon!
But then to my rescue came poetry
The musicality of Dr Seuss
A bridge to William Shakespeare’s comedies
His sonnets came next; damn earworm broke loose!
da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM
The constant pulse of iambic meter
It pounds away in my ears like a drum
It’s still there when I read the newspaper!
The music in the words makes sense to me
That’s what I learned in speech pathology.
© Carolyn Hastings 2022
For those that don’t know it, I’m a speech pathologist, so the sounds in words and the musicality of words have, for a long time, been front-of-brain for me.
But ever since I started writing sonnets 18 months ago, I’ve had an iambic earworm in my head! It’s like an unbalanced metronome. I only hope…
