Ken - Over the years I have done fun poetry, but have done some sentimental and 'heavy' stuff, but have done that only in times of crisis; i.e. for my husband's death, even a wonderful orange 'tiger' cat's death - did a fair few for people's birthdays, weddings etc. - always light and slightly ironic in one instance, for the birthday of my long-time show-offish friend who knows everything and everyone and brags and brags 'he's been there, done that'. No it's not NBD!!!
NoBoDe's are often oblique, always have a humanitarian element, or are funny and always end up with made-up words in order to complete a rhyme - he likes us to think he is dyslexic - which is often a lot of fun to get to the bottom of. Maybe he actually is or was dyslexic . . . . .
I believe we are all born as artists/poets/ and that is how we spent the magical time of early humanity - and the stories of our Aboriginal People prove that - remembering events etc. in stanzas, rhythms, songs - as there was no 'written' language . . . . rhymes are easily committed to memory.
I don't have small children in my environment now, but remember learning little poems myself for games, when I was a child, and my children did the same. At one particular age one of my kids imagined herself to be a poet and she would spout the most outrageously forced conclusions to make her verses rhyme and we had such fun with her - she is the artistic, musical one . . . .
Not belittling you in any way, just saying: these things come naturally to us, except it is 'drilled' out of us by education and the serious business of having to grow up; good on you for having kept that side alive!! and reveal yourself -
when I find my 'tiger' poem, I'll post it on here . . . .
Checking out the Corona Virus atm, which it seems was/is not transmitted by bats, but more likely via the live animal trade at various markets in China - and they do not eat bats in Wuhan, as someone on here insists they do! But the most likely reason are the relaxed Health standards in China's markets, where live animals are traded next to food being sold. Cheers Tau
