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a review of a work of free verse

 
 
I’m quite pleased to see
your lines of darlin’ poetry.
readin’ them has made me feel,
well, happier’n Alaskan ice
 
awarmin’ under restin’ seal.
I know that true free verse and such
cannot rhyme, at least not very much.
it does, indeed, appear
 
your ballsy cantos here
are not in present need of constant rhyme,
I’ll say … but only this time.
I can now to comfy bunk retire,
 
my mind aclutter, all afire,
brimmed full to grossly fat
with prompted storms of thought.
for my predicted sleepless night,
 
my gen’rous thanks a lot …
for makin’ cause for sleepless plight.
from me, before it’s off to cot
I, trudgin’, feebly trot,
a rate of five you’ve aptly earned---
 
and I made sure you got.

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weirdelf

weirdelf

18 years 10 months ago

Fair cop, guvnor

But please remember all the truly terrible poetry by young writer that was ruined because they tried to rhyme. You are truly gifted and skillfull at handling the language, others have to go a different way. Let me ask you this. If a new poet, with not much reading and not much education in poetry, was trying to express their deep-felt notions of life, would you advise them to rhyme or not? cheers, Jess
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barbsdad2003

18 years 10 months ago

Whatever It Is, Make It Lean

I'd just offer him or her, in my most pleasing manner, some tea and quiet sympathy; and then we'd, p'raps for just a bit, chat re something like mental telepathy ... we'd talk but sparingly