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How to be a Famous Poet

Nan

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

0 posted 2000-10-02 09:05 PM

Wanna be a classic poet?
Just sit down with pen and tablet.
Let your metric feet go walkin'
And your wingers do the flockin'
Through your trusty Dictionaurus.
Tell a story that won't bore us;
Toss some end-rhyme in absurdly
Using syntax that is wordly.
Ev'ry single one can do it
It's no big deal - Get write to it.
Then a little luck quill do ya
And don't let those critics fool ya..
Like great poets who precede us
We'll be gone before we're famous.

Winnifer Fayre
Junior Member

since 2000-10-05

Posts 13

1 posted 2000-10-16 05:13 PM

i love your poem. how true are your words. during her lifetime emily dickenson was simply a wannabe. i especially liked your clever line "then a little luck quill do you."
is it too late for me to try my hand at a paradelle? would i have a time limit? you said that any meter or rhyme scheme is acceptable. but do they need to have a rhyme scheme or set meter? some of the ones your students have written don't, so i was wondering.
sorry for asking so many question.

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