My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.
I used to see my dad and his brothers rhyming, and I knew I wanted to do that one day. I'm like any other boy, always wanting to follow in his father's footsteps.
I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself.
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.
My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.
Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.
I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.
My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
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