Let's Go to Poetry School Date: Monday, 1st March 2004 @ 11:17:55 AM AEST Topic: Sad Poetry Contributed By: norm We're all sitting 'round and writing like mad, How do we know if our poetry's bad? I have a way of checking our stuff, I'll tell you now; No reason to bluff. Aiken, Conrod: Miracles and meetings *****s, E.E.: Cambridge Ladies, Buffalo Bill, Picasso Elliot, T.S.: Morning at the Window, Many more Kilmer, Joyce: Trees Lowell, Amy: Solitaire, A Lady Pound, Ezra: An Immortality, Alba, Many more Sandburg, Carl: Chicago, Fog Service, Robert The Cremation of Sam McGee Teasdale, Sara: On the Dunes, The Long Hill Wylie, Elinore: Wild Peaches Then There's: Dickenson, Emily...Melville, Herman...Lowell, James Russell Whitman, Walt...Thoreau, Henry, David...Holmes, Oliver, Wendell Poe, Edgar, Allen...Longfellow, Henry, Wadsworth Whittier, James, Greenleaf...Emerson, Ralph, Waldo SEARCH all their names, see what they wrote, See why they're famous...poets of note. Don't steal their words, see how they write, Take pad and pencil and sit down tonite. If you continue to write by the seat of your pants, Like having green thunbs but not watering plants. It just might be better to study their lines, The fount of the words on which poetry mines. This poem is Copyright © norm Important note: ALL POETRY ON THIS SITE IS COPYRIGHT. If you wish to use any poem for any purpose, please either EMAIL Mick from the sites feedback form, or go to the AUTHOR'S site and EMAIL the author for permission. If you Email Mick for permission on any poem that is not his personal works, he will endeavor to contact the author on your behalf. This poem comes from Your Poetry Dot Com https://www.your-poetry.com/ The URL for this poem is: https://www.your-poetry.com/route.php?page=poetry/PoemDetail&story_id=36908