P.G.Wodehouse (Plum to his fans) spoke about how difficult it is to find a rhyme for “love”.
Unfair Words
Plum spoke about the difficulty, by Jove
In finding a rhyming word for ‘love’
Dashed unfair are these dashed words
Can’t be rhymed forwards or backwards
Orange, for instance, is by itself, all alone
In solitary confinement, loneliness prone
The solution to this problem called orange
Is to simply its colourful name re-arrange!
Purple is one more such feller
Sort of a roving single bachelor
No kith, no kin, no mimic and no mime
No copy, no dupe, no verse nor rhyme!
And unless you deign to consider
Substitutes below par and inferior
You have to carry on, regardless
With orange and purple, rhymeless
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© Shiva Kumar 2016
