Fly Away, Blues!
Fly Away, Blues!
YIppee yahoo
and a side of skidoo,
send those blues
to iron shoe
the nearest old plug
with a griping flue–
and even if boiled down to glue,
they still won’t stick to my heart true
(that heart that loves you, only you)–
But if I find you’ve played me false
then even Strauss won’t make me waltz,
and all in me that flies like birds–
my bones as hollow as your words–
will drop to ground and down below
into darkest indigo.
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A sing-songy ditty meant for Fireblossom’s prompt on free verse at With Real Toads. The idea, when I started, was that the narrator would be free as a bird, but I could not write the poem down right away, and by the time I got back to it, the versifier somehow became more bound up.
As always (unless specifically noted otherwise), all art–visual as well as word–on this blog is made by me, and all rights are retained. (I only mention that because I kind of like that ladybug!)
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February 16, 2013 at 8:49 pm
This is not free verse, but it is FREE and gorgeous and it makes me happy! Have a great weekend.
February 16, 2013 at 9:00 pm
Thanks, Susan! k.
February 16, 2013 at 9:02 pm
As you know, I am partial to ladybugs! Yours is a cutie!
I like your poem, k. My favorite lines were the last three of the first stanza. 🙂
February 16, 2013 at 9:42 pm
I could easily skip rope to this! great, light and carefree write, karin.
February 16, 2013 at 10:03 pm
Thanks, Jane. That is my silly poem for the day. I had a weird day, but wrote a serious one this morning. Hope all well. k.
February 16, 2013 at 10:12 pm
Lovely, both art and verse. Wonderful ladybug!
February 16, 2013 at 10:35 pm
Hey — free verse isn’t supposed to rhyme! ha ha Wish I could rhyme without thinking about it, I’m just jealous. Very cute and I love the lady bug too.
February 17, 2013 at 2:19 am
Free verse may employ irregular rhyme, internal rhyme, near rhyme etc if the poet so chooses. Though it is more often unrhymed, this is not prescriptive.
February 17, 2013 at 12:13 am
Very fun poem. I loved reading it aloud. 🙂
February 17, 2013 at 1:39 am
evenn the Blue Danube would applaud !
February 17, 2013 at 2:17 am
Since Free Verse is just that, it is really the choice of the writer as to how rhythm, rhyme and stanza divisions will be made. I think this is a fine example of such verse: the style is your own, and the sense of flying freely was expertly conveyed.
February 17, 2013 at 3:48 am
Yes, fly away blues…love the feel in this one. Just makes me happy..
February 17, 2013 at 6:36 am
This made my morning – Thank you!
February 17, 2013 at 6:56 am
Almost you make me feel I want to dance — and no on’es ever quite managed that!
February 17, 2013 at 10:22 am
ha. nice…lots of energy in this one…felt kinda like skipping or dancing in the sun…rather carefree….
February 17, 2013 at 10:27 am
I love “even Strauss won’t make me waltz!” So clever!
February 17, 2013 at 10:35 am
Just because it’s called ‘free’ doesn’t mean poetic devices can’t be employed, as others have pointed out–and I think you did the same thing I did, went with the word free as the essence of the piece, to wherever it would take you–very successfully, as this has the sense of a child skipping rope and making up the words as she goes along. I love the iron shoe, the flue, and the entire last stanza.
February 17, 2013 at 10:40 am
Definitely making up words as she goes along! k.
February 17, 2013 at 12:53 pm
“and all in me that flies like birds–
my bones as hollow as your words–
will drop to ground and down below
into darkest indigo.”
This is my favorite, favorite Karen!!! Great write and I can relate!
February 17, 2013 at 1:11 pm
Thanks so much, Hannah. k.
February 17, 2013 at 1:14 pm
You’re so welcome, Karen!
February 17, 2013 at 2:29 pm
love. this. LOVE. THIS. love it! and love, love that image! the ladybug is my power animal. er, power bug. 🙂
February 17, 2013 at 5:47 pm
Thank you, Marian. k.
February 17, 2013 at 3:46 pm
Too short! 🙂 I wanted it to carry on. Beautiful ditty. Many thanks.
Greetings from London.
February 17, 2013 at 10:00 pm
You gave blue new personality and meaning here. I admire that original usage.
February 17, 2013 at 10:05 pm
Thanks so much, Kim. k.
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