Get Your Premium Membership

To a Writer Par Excellence

I think you are a writer par excellence Your prose and poetry are simply divine With ebb and flow your phrases make sense, With remarkable meter and exquisite rhyme. Your prose and poetry are simply divine You have a fine understanding of perfect tense, With remarkable meter and exquisite rhyme Enjoyable reading, my friend, every time. You have a fine understanding of perfect tense Upon reading your work, I never need to wince, Enjoyable reading, my friend, every time, Elevating my literary appreciation to the sublime. Upon reading your work, I never need to wince In giving out words of praise, I will not mince, Elevating my literary appreciation to the sublime As I see it, your skills have reached their prime. In giving out words of praise, I will not mince With ebb and flow your phrases make sense, As I see it, your skills have reached their prime I think you are a writer par excellence. written December 8, 2021 HONORABLE MENTION "Rhymed, Metered Poems" poetry contest All Poetry, December 15, 2021

Copyright © | Year Posted 2021




Post Comments

Poetrysoup is an environment of encouragement and growth so only provide specific positive comments that indicate what you appreciate about the poem.

Please Login to post a comment

Date: 12/9/2021 8:05:00 AM
Excellent, excellent, excellent, a tour de force with those rhymes as well! In all my years of writing poems I've only dared to write a single pantoum which, try as I have to locate it, I haven't? / Maurice
Login to Reply
Hankins Avatar
L Milton Hankins
Date: 12/9/2021 8:56:00 AM
Aw, thanks, Maurice. I cannot tell you how much your appreciation for this poem means to me. I love working with the pantoum.
Date: 12/9/2021 6:54:00 AM
"AWWWW GOWAWN" "SHUCKS" I'M BLUSHING......Fantastic job with the Pantoum Milton
Login to Reply
Hankins Avatar
L Milton Hankins
Date: 12/9/2021 8:57:00 AM
John, you are certainly deserving of every word in the poem! Thanks for your wonderful response.
Date: 12/8/2021 5:09:00 PM
And there was me, looking for my name… Damn… that’ll teach me not to use bad gramma for literary effect. Nonetheless, a smart, meaningful write, Milt. ;-) Terry
Login to Reply
Leffanta Avatar
Rico Leffanta
Date: 12/9/2021 11:07:00 AM
Flood = blood?
Hankins Avatar
L Milton Hankins
Date: 12/8/2021 8:26:00 PM
Terry, I thought of you, but I couldn't figure out how to rhyme Flood with anything! (chuckling) Anyway, you can take it to heart!
Hankins Avatar
L Milton Hankins
Date: 12/8/2021 7:07:00 PM
Terry, you, of all people, can get away with most anything in writing because you have a tremendous gift for the humorous. Your writing is absolutely never banal or mundane. It is always engrossing. Thanks for the compliment.
Date: 12/8/2021 2:08:00 PM
This is quite a well-crafted pantoum, reflecting well on the one who wrote it! Ad astra per aspera! ~ gw
Login to Reply
Hankins Avatar
L Milton Hankins
Date: 12/8/2021 7:08:00 PM
Thanks, gw, for the thoughtful compliment. Now, if I only understood Latin or whatever it is, I'd know what you are really telling me. (chuckling)
Date: 12/8/2021 1:19:00 PM
Well now, what poet wouldn't love to receive such thoughts? Pantoum perfection, Milt.
Login to Reply
Hankins Avatar
L Milton Hankins
Date: 12/8/2021 2:06:00 PM
Thank you so much, my dear friend Jenna. Yes, we do have some very fine writers here...and you are among them!

Book: Shattered Sighs