Let There Be Limericks: To All You Wannabe Poets

I To all you wannabe poets, Here's a word of advice ere you start: If you want folks to love it, Keep your ego out of it, When you write always write from the heart. II It's great fun to write haiku and sonnets About rainbows and gay Easter bonnets, But if you find them too terse, You can flesh out your verse, And festoon it with quatrains and nonets. III Poets come, and poets go, and poets coincide. Some rhyme time and time again, others "free verse" with pride. But those who let their egos reign Oft fade and never scribe again. They succumb to the literary sin of authorcide. IV Writing is for me both pain and pleasure, The time I spend with pad and pen I treasure. I must confess, though, Sometimes I stress so, When syllables I choose to use refuse to measure.