Repetition

 (Picture Credit - (himself) Stewart Copeland net)

Repetition is the best petition.

Drive that refrain into your brain.

It’s my mission.

Driven on by Stewart Copeland the musician.

Drums and dance

Send me into a trance.

Transcendental music

Any way you choose it.

Repetition, repetition, repetition

Just as potent as nuclear fission.

Sometimes, for me, it’s just too much.

As crazy as Screaming Lord Sutch.

Yet here I make a telling submission

About the power of repetition

As beautiful as a painting by Titian.

A composition to appeal to your cognition

To get you into a better condition

Without transition.

There are four hundred and ninety rhymes

Of repetition

And that’s not something from superstition.

But I’d better avoid a war of attrition

Even with your kindly permission.

It’s great to prance

And have a dance.

I’m glad you’ve given

This poem a glance

To give its rhythms every chance.

My aim is to enhance

And cut through the boredom like a lance.

Poems are music

Poems are Romance

So let’s advance

Then make a stance.

That’s my position.

Paul Butters

© PB 2\2\2020 (first line written 31\1 then notes made 1\2). Final line added 3\2.

(Poem inspired by Stewart Copeland's TV series "Adventures in Music" on BBC 4).