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Doggerel Ii
Doggerel II: Doggerel about Doggerel, or, More Nonsense Verse

The Board
by Michael R. Burch

Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood:
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.

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Categories: imagists, animal, dog, humor, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Happily Never After
Happily Never After: the Second Curse of the Horny Toad
by Michael R. Burch
 
He did not think of love of Her at all
frog-plangent nights, as moons engoldened roads
through crumbling stonewalled provinces, where toads
(nee princes) ruled in chinks and grew so small
at last to be invisible....

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Categories: imagists, addiction, allegory, child, childhood,
Form: Sonnet
The Second Curse of the Horny Toad
Happily Never After (the Second Curse of the Horny Toad)
by Michael R. Burch

He did not think of love of Her at all
frog-plangent nights, as moons engoldened roads
through crumbling stonewalled provinces, where toads
(nee princes) ruled in chinks and grew so small
at last to be invisible. He...

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Categories: imagists, allegory, analogy, animal, extended
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



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READING ALOUD Reading a poem silently ( as  compared to aloud)is the difference between staring at sheet music and playing the music on an instrument.Recitation  equates poetry to the experience of viewing a painting or touching a sculpture...each time the viewer / reciter brings a...

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Categories: imagists, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member ADELAIDE CRAPSEY imaginista
Imagists use clear, simple language to paint a picture. Imagery, on the other hand, is use of flowery and descriptive language, and often figurative language, to create an image in the reader’s mind. An imagist would keep things simple, and not use imagery other than...

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Categories: imagists, image, poets,
Form: Didactic

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry