Fatal Attraction?

I’m sometimes asked how I’m inspired:

A famous singer has retired?*

Does climate change new fears evoke

Or those in power rock our boat?

 

I glean ideas from daily news

Learn from friends why they enthuse

Or find on Internet new theme

On which my muse can feast and dream.

 

I latch onto the ‘here and now’:

Ideas burgeon (God knows how);

I try to capture fleeting thought

 As every ode has lifespan short!

 

As for books, the title’s key

A pun, I find, will often be

Somewhat of a mild temptation

Sealed with clever punctuation!!

 

No charge, no adverts, just pert prose;

So, thanks for being one of those

Who passes by from time to time

And finds amusement in my rhyme!

(c) Poet in the woods 2025

* e.g. Julio Inglesias  - Spanish singer (born 1943)