Day3: Random Rhymes

Day3 challenge was quite different in nature. I generated 10 random words using an online random word generator and then selected 4 rhyming/related words for each of them from Rhymezone -- giving me a word bank of 50 words. 

As my 9 year old son is also participating in the challenge, we decided to have more fun and attempt a different sort of poem using the same word bank. Here is what he wrote. And below is my attempt (Italicized words are from the word bank):

For Jim always is

a happy brown clown, 

Living in a tilting building 

in downtown

He loves to put, bright

 makeup on his face

always dresses in polka dots

and an orange colored lace

He goes by the name

 of A Delirious Idiot, 

The crowd finds it funny

and his acts are hilarious

Tales of his deeds, are

always sought after

My friends always tell me, 

with roaring laughter

My kids also love him

more than fairies

As he carries not books,

but berries in libraries

One day, when I met him

I asked him a question,

"Can I please give you

a genuine suggestion?"

He told me, "I'm willing to,

give you my attention

As long as you promise to

not give me any tension."

I told Jim, that, I'm not so sure

With so many problems around, with no known cure

a silly laugh, in these times, is not an allure

and that he needs to act, like a man matured.

He told me:

 "Watson, this is elementary,

So, don't be pedantic.

Treat life as a poetry

and die a romantic"

"Look at me dear,

I've got a hole in my heart

and before my breaths are over

I want to play my part."

"I am left with, only a year or two

To solve world's problems, I got no clue."

I noticed, he wanted to do something, 

before his chances blew

So, that's why he's in a rush, 

he knew time flew.

He couldn't laugh himself, 

so he made the country smile,

Hiding his sorrows behind the mask

The eye-shadow was his guile.

The bright makeup on his face 

hid his pain very well

The lace covered his sufferings,

so no one could tell.

The polka dots he used to

camouflage something more

He wanted his audience to laugh

and not cringe on sight so gore.

His makeup wasn't funny, but hideous

He really was a delirious idiot.

But I made him a secret promise

and I will never let him down...

for Jim always was

a happy brown clown.

© Ankush Agarwal

04 Apr 2020