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Rolling Change While Reading Poetry

Rolling change while reading poetry Frustrating rolls Frustrating words Forty nickels Forty syllables Fifty dimes Fifty lines If I only had a quarter For every word I read I could have many rolls of pennies And many pomes read

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Carol Sunshine Brown

Date: 10/23/2012 12:02:00 PM

Wonderful reading your excellent poetry today Matthew. Love, Carol

Ayesha Karim

Date: 10/22/2012 10:08:00 PM

The 40/50 40 nickels 40 syllables fifty dimes fifty lines thing was obscure but I like when he's like "if only I had a quarter" for reading as much poetry as I have read. I could have made rolls of pennies [the line I really start to get him] and many more I'm assuming he means more poems read. The writer of this poem gives clues and hints in every line of the poem but then you get lost at the end "where is he going with his conclusion?"

Matthew Horstkotter

Date: 10/22/2012 7:46:00 PM

Not sure what kind of poem this is. If someone could let me know I would appreciate it.

Maurice Rigoler
Date: 3/28/2013 5:52:00 PM

I'd call it free verse. It it was rhymed, then I'd call it simply Rhyme. Thanks for stopping by to read my Disappoinkment. It's appreciated. C.L.