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My best friend Bonnie was very surprised when she got a series of rhyming poems from her husband by snail mail.  He was away on a business trip and apparently went to a lot of trouble to give her a special message.  You might think it was about love, but it wasn’t and she was pretty stunned.

Each day she got a poem complaining about the lack of sex in their marriage.  The first one practically knocked her off her feet because she wasn’t expecting it.  She thought everything was okay between them and that with a new baby and lack of sleep he wasn’t in the mood any more than she was.

But, she couldn’t have been more wrong.  He apparently felt rejected, unloved and hurt.  That was what the rhyme conveyed in the first poem.  She felt stunned by his accusations of neglect and we talked about it for hours.  She told me she would try to do better when he got back from his business trip.

The next day another rhyme arrived in the mail.  In a way it was even worse than the first because he accused her of not caring about herself, either.  He said she must have stopped loving him because she wasn’t dressing up for him and looking sexy like she used to.  Now she was getting angry.  With the baby crying every three hours he expected her to look sexy?

By the third poem it was starting to sound like they were on the verge of a breakup.  She began feeling really hurt and scared about being left with a baby to take care of without a husband.  She had no way of reaching him and he wasn’t calling like he promised.  Just sending these disturbing messages.

On the fourth day she got the feeling he might be looking for love elsewhere.  She became frantic with jealousy.  She made me promise to stay with the baby the next day while she got a manicure and pedicure.  Of course I agreed, even though I wasn’t used to infants.  Luckily she went between feedings and the baby slept right through.

The fifth poem asked her to give their relationship a lot of thought.  It wasn’t exactly a threat, but she felt that she needed to put a lot of effort into paying attention to him if she wanted to keep him.  She was determined to feeding his starving manhood.  Obviously she’d fallen in love with the baby and he was feeling like just another piece of furniture hanging around.

I babysat again that day while she got her hair done and shopped for a sexy nightie.  She bought pink light bulbs that were supposed to make everyone look better and she changed every bulb in the house.  She even splurged and bought a bottle of champagne.  Thank goodness she wasn’t breastfeeding.

When he finally got home she was ready for him.  She threw her arms around him and told him how much she loved him.  While he was in the shower she put out delicious goodies to eat and poured the champagne.

The next day I called her and knew right away that she’d fixed her relationship.  She let me know that it had been a very romantic night and she was going to try to do this at  least once a week no matter how tired she was.

Without having an actual knockdown, drag out fight he’d gotten his message across.  All it took was some rhyming poems!

Poems about life, if written from the heart, can touch the recipient and lift his or her spirits beyond all imagination.  Let’s say a loved one is having a birthday.  You, of course, would want to express your feelings in an original way.

Do you run to the nearest greeting card store and pore over one card after another, looking for just the right thing? You’ve probably been going down that road for years.  Sure, there are some lovely cards out there.  But, when all is said and done, it’s still a store bought card.  Better than nothing, of course.

Still, nothing can beat giving a message that is truly personal.  Wouldn’t it be nice to write something yourself, saying say how important this person is to you and why?  Imagine saying it in your own words, and rhyming it besides?

You’d be able to bring up secrets you share that mean the world to you both, memories that bring a twinkle to the eye, perhaps even an emotional tear or two. What fun to give a tribute that is full of fun and mischief, with a dash of sentimentality mixed in.  Words that capture the essence of your relationship will be cherished more than any expensive gift you could ever buy.

And imagine being the recipient of a custom-written birthday wish that rhymes.  Really, no other gift can beat that.  It makes a person feel on top of the world. But how to begin going about writing such a birthday card?  First you get out your pen and pad.  Then you sit and stare at the blank page.  Ideas begin to flow, but when you write them down they don’t seem as clever or entertaining as you would like.

So now what do you do?  After several false starts you go to a rhyming dictionary.  After a couple of hours you become frustrated. And the more frustrated you get, the harder it is.

Wouldn’t it be better to spare yourself a lot of stress?  Wouldn’t you rather pour yourself a glass of wine, put your feet up and relax, while someone else write it? You’ll be amazed at what a talented rhymer can do with the facts you provide.

There are people out there who can capture exactly what you’re trying to say. And the way they can do it in clever rhyme will make your head spin. Try going on the internet and doing a search. Look up poems about life.  You’ll be able to find just what you’re looking for and it probably won’t
even cost you much.

Letting an expert weave your words into a magical custom-written poems about life or  tribute sounds good, doesn’t it?  And you get to take all the credit.

Every time someone important to you has an event to celebrate there you are, wishing you could think of an original present.  In the past you’ve done it all.  Flowers.  Chocolate bon bons.  Balloon bouquets. Now you’re looking for a this-is-your-life type tribute for your parents’ 50th anniversary.  Better think about rhyming poems.

It’s a formidable challenge, you soon find out, because when you try to write down  the story of their marriage your words don’t do it justice.  So if you want to throw your folks a memorable party and have a special tribute to read to them, here’s what you’re going to have to do.

MAKE A LIST

Write down what you know about how they met.  Your folks have probably told you that story more times than you can remember.  Then make a list of your dad’s attributes.  Your mom’s attributes. Examples would be:  who is funny?  Strict?  Kind?  Anything unusual would enrich the story you will tell.

INTERVIEW

If they have siblings you should interview each one.  Talk to their friends, relatives, colleagues, whoever you can get your hands on.  If you yourself have siblings they are probably going in on this gift with you.  Ask each one to make their own list.  You might be amazed at the picture that begins to come together.  By talking with all these people you’ll pick up plenty of gems to flesh out the story.

MAKE AN OUTLINE

Now that you’ve gathered all the different viewpoints from others,  make an outline of their lives from the beginning to the present.  Take all the good and, in case there’s anything not meant to be shared with the world, cross it out.  This tribute is supposed to leave them laughing, maybe wiping away a sentimental tear or two, feeling  happy and satisfied that they’ve had a wonderful marriage and that they are beloved.

FIND A POET

Your next challenge is to search on the  internet for a poet who will be able to do justice to all this great information you’ve put together.  Find out what it will cost, whether the poet is willing to make changes if you’re not satisfied with something, how long it will take, making sure they will be able to meet your deadline.

DELIVERY METHOD

You don’t want to rely on the postal service.  The easiest, fastest way of course is email, so find someone who will email you the finished product.

It’s good to remember the old saying:  “garbage in, garbage out.”  This means that you need good information to give your poet.  You’ll love giving rhyming poems and your people will love receiving them.

Everyone has milestones to celebrate and we have the perfect way to do it.  We write poems about life; custom-written toasts, tributes, invitations, etc… for the person you want to honor.

Be it a birthday, anniversary, retirement or any other occasion, we can write it for you.  And the best part is, we do it in clever rhyme.  Nothing delights people more than receiving a wonderful tribute written especially for and about them.  You can even let them even think you wrote it yourself if you so choose.

Most people are unable to write these poems about life because rhyming is a gift.  It’s not something one can learn to do.  Either you have the gift or you don’t.  And if you don’t, consider yourself lucky to have found rhymeshop because the poems we turn out are second to none.

We have a knack for capturing your feelings exactly and you will be thrilled with our work.  We don’t quit until you’re happy with the poems about  life we offer.  Don’t be surprised to find out the honoree has it framed and prominently displayed in their home or office.  It is a gift that will be treasured for all time.

Have you ever wished you were good at writing rhyming poems about life?  If you were, you could entertain your friends and relatives on all their special occasions.  Let’s say your brother is getting married and you want to read him a special toast at the wedding reception.  So many times people are asked to give a toast and when the time comes they make complete fools of themselves.

How can this be?  Well, part of it is nervous tension.  They say people fear public speaking more than death! And, if you don’t have something clever to say, your stress level will be even higher.  Just imagine standing before a crowd shaking like a leaf, wishing the ground would open and swallow you up, before you make a complete fool of yourself.

Now if you’re a good writer you can just compose a  nice speech, full of sentiment, humor and good will. And you’re certainly allowed to refer to some notes.  If you rehearse it enough you should be able to pull it off and do a decent job.

If, however, you want to shine and be the life of the party, you need to give a clever and delightful original toast in rhyme.  Should you have what it takes, fine.  But if not, you need someone to write it for you.  Here at rhymeshop that’s what we do.  We create rhyming poems about life for special occasions all day long and we’ve been doing it for years.

You tell us what you want to say in your own words and we email you back a magical rhyme poems about life.  No job is  too big or too small.  What’s more? – we’re fast, inexpensive and a pleasure to work with.

Have you ever thought about how rhyming poems delight everyone from six to one hundred and six?  Probably not, because unless you yourself are a poet such a thought wouldn’t even occur to you.  When you need to mark someone’s special day you probably buy as lovely a gift as you can afford.  Then you spend all kinds of time looking through greeting cards, trying to find the perfect one, only to be shocked at how expensive cards are now..

What you may not realize is that at rhymeshop we actually compose rhyming poems for every occasion you can imagine.  And we do it because it’s a fact that people would rather get a tribute about themselves more than anything else!  Here’s the way it works.  You tell us all the wonderful, fun or eccentric things about the person you want to honor and we really pay attention.

You decide how long you want it to be and we weave all the info into an unforgettable tribute that rhymes!  People that are lucky enough to receive  this thoughtful present are moved to tears!

So if you’re wracking your brain for just the right gift to give someone important to you, check us out.  You’ll be glad you found rhymeshop, the site that does rhyming poems better than anyone.  And you wouldn’t believe some of the reasons people send them.  Let’s just say they go way beyond birthdays or holiday greetings.