Roses are Red, Violets are Blue?

Doggerel. In laymen’s terms, Doggerel pretty much describes the kind of writing that is typical of the phrase above. Cliché, forced, very elementary. Supposedly a lot of comics use it to poke fun at simple verse. Remember when you were in fourth or fifth grade when you first started to learn to write poems? First you learned that poems rhymed. Then you learned that poems used simile and metaphor. Then you learned that poems flowed to a certain pattern called meter.. And then… You grew up. And you learned, that many good poems, can be quite the contrary. It’s kind of the way I feel about a lot of the music that is out right now. I feel like some people are stuck in the elementary stages of rap and r&b, for instance. ‘When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, And in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call .’ They have not learned that a good poem or good verse period, does not always necessarily have to follow the rules. Step out the box. You don’t always have to rap to the beat. Your lines don’t always have to rhyme,. and you don’t always have to have a metaphor. How many times can we hear a different version of ‘Like a Fat Kid Loves Cake’. Take your music to the next level. Graduate elementary school . Know that all Roses are not red, and all violets are not blue.