I have often been asked to explain the reasons behind my blog of random rhymes. Fair enough I say; it’s not complicated. I was drawn to rhymes as a young child whilst I was learning to read. During the 1950’s along with all the symbols and codes of letters, words and numbers introduced by and memorised at school, I discovered Rupert Bear comics. The stories were written in rhyming couplets and I became hooked. I have often compiled little ditties for friends and friends’ requests.
The idea of blogging was first suggested to me in the late 1990’s by a stranger on a train and I had no idea what blogging was. Though as an ardent word processor user, I began to compile and save rhyme ideas as they visited during a reverie or a daydream.
So my blog is precisely a collection of spontaneous ideas mainly unconnected apart from the ‘Tea ones’ which were born from a visit to a café in Yorkshire, England called Mad Hatter Tea Café around 2013 and from Twitter/Bluesky postings with Ian Macmillan of BBC Radio 4 FM The Verb.
I have now written over 2000 posts as published on my blog, with visits now exceeding 3 million. I don’t know why my blog seems so popular, but actually I’m delighted anyway.
Am I a poet? No, I don’t think so; I prefer to think of myself as ‘The Rhyme Ranger’ or ‘Rhyme Bandit’.
Finally, I was born in Lambeth, London England in 1949 and brought up as a Roman Catholic, though nowadays I’m a full-blown atheist.
If you are still with me, why not check out my favourite rhyme:
https://lyriclines-lettsy.blogspot.com/2015/05/tales-from-teapot-spout-part-one.html
Thanks for stopping by Cliff Letts
