Gershon Wolf Poet Rhyme

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 April 24, 2023 at 10:53 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 April 22, 2023 at 8:14 PM I don't know when penning a rhyming poem became a thing to scorn but I love me some iambic pentameter :) Gershon Wolf April 22, 2023 at 8:55 PM I prefer the 'Washington Examiner.' ~ Just a pro-PROS-al.

Shirley Hawkins April 20, 2023 at 9:13 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 April 21, 2023 at 3:08 PM Who's gonna win that staring contest, you or the blank screen?! Keep me posted. ~ Scholarship Committee