Rhyme is All Around Us

RHYME IS ALL AROUND US

Rhyme is all around us

It’s floating in the air

Go ahead and grab one

Super double doggie dare

Rhyme is all around us

It moves through with the breeze

You can feel it in the flowers

You hear it rustling in the trees

Rhyme’s entrenched in water

It’s saturating seas

You can jump right in it

Or just wade up to your knees

Rhyme is in our breath

Inhale, exhale, then again

On a cold day see it

Condensing in the wind

Rhyme is in our heart and veins

It sets our lifely beat

Feel it in your fingers

Feel it in your feet

Rhyme can be a rock

Tip it over, watch it roll

Rhyme can be a clock

Let the ticking soothe your soul

Rhyme is in the way

Two people hug and kiss goodnight

Rhyme is just before

When those two people had a fight

Rhyme is a new bicycle

Hear the tires, feel the brakes

Going through a puddle

Leaving trails that look like snakes

Rhyme is an old lawnmower

Hear the engine kinda buck

Stopping to restart it

Four leaf clover means good luck

Rhyme is the way the sunlight hits us

As we’re coming ‘round the bend

Rhyme is the sound of voices calling

When we run into a friend

Rhyme is the marching band

That goes parading down the street

Keeping time and looking fine

Keeping rhythm with their feet

Rhyme is in the shower

The way it swirls right down the drain

Water beats upon our skin

Nurturing our brain

Rhyme is the grandest redwood tree

Mighty trunk which grows so tall

Once was the size of a blade of grass

It really was that small

Rhyme is in the mountain wind

Whipping through the cairn and brush

Duck way low and shelter down

All other sounds are hushed

Rhyme is the forceful river

Whooshing, plowing on

Rhyme is how it flows on through

The morning, dusk, and dawn

Rhyme is how mosquitos sound

They fly and buzz and swarm

Watch one try to land and then

Squash it firm against your arm

Rhyme is a fluffy cloud

Moving through a bright blue sky

Rhyme is a heavy rain

Quenching crops that are too dry

Rhyme is the way the farmers sing

The way they do their dance

The harvest that the rain will bring

They honor all the plants

Rhyme is in the food we cook

The way we bake our bread

Rhyme is passing ‘round the pitcher

And getting hungry bellies fed

Rhyme is the thing I hear at night

That laps up against my mind

Like the ocean does the shore

Seems from another time

Rhyme is also rhythm

Music without instruments

Words can play a song

All in tune, no dissonance

Rhyme is total freedom

Rhyme can help reveal

Rhyme can add some mystery

Rhyme can give an honest deal

Rhyme is all around you

Go ahead and grab a bit

Fully give yourself to it

Lift your feet and take a sit