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Those Rebel Poets

Remember all those rebel poets and their bizarre ways How they spooked their stodgy elders with contra-poetic displays Dispensing with meter and flow, accent and rhyme penning metaphor-less, image-free lines Treating verse as a curse and a sonnet much worse vulgarities popping up like landmines.. Well, it's gotten worse instead of better ~ Just read a poem without letters

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Caren Krutsinger

Date: 4/24/2023 10:53:00 AM

This is fun to read " Treating verse as a curse and a sonnet much worse" and truthfully, I can barely imagine what Coleridge, Poe and Wadsworth would think of "poetry" today.

Michelle Faulkner

Date: 4/22/2023 8:14:00 PM

I don't know when penning a rhyming poem became a thing to scorn but I love me some iambic pentameter :)

Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/22/2023 8:55:00 PM

I prefer the 'Washington Examiner.' ~ Just a pro-PROS-al.

Shirley Hawkins

Date: 4/20/2023 9:13:00 PM

A blank page is waiting for a consummate poet. I have been staring at a blank page, waiting for the letters to fill it for hours this afternoon.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/21/2023 3:08:00 PM

Who's gonna win that staring contest, you or the blank screen?! Keep me posted. ~ Scholarship Committee