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[title] => Let's Go to Poetry School
[time] => 2004-03-01 11:17:55
[hometext] => A refresher course can't hurt
[bodytext] => 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.
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Let's Go to Poetry School
Contributed by
norm
on
Monday, 1st March 2004 @ 11:17:55 AM in AEST
Topic:
dedicatedpoems
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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.
Copyright ©
norm
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Re: Let's Go to Poetry School
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by Rakerman1999 on
Monday, 1st March 2004 @ 11:39:22 AM AEST
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Your poetry and your wisdom shine in this my friend....;o)
Well said
Larry |
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Re: Let's Go to Poetry School
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by bj on
Monday, 1st March 2004 @ 12:26:03 PM AEST
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| so true...but you overlooked(?) the master of the inane..Ogden Nash...loved the poem |
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Re: Let's Go to Poetry School
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by Wrybod on
Monday, 1st March 2004 @ 01:13:28 PM AEST
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Sailing close to plagiarism
you could easy cause a schism
in the Y.P.D.C ranks
then from Mick you'ld get no thanks
Me I'm stcking to my own
best way forward I have known
even though I know it's rubbish
somebody might want to publish
bob
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Re: Let's Go to Poetry School
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by shelby on
Monday, 1st March 2004 @ 02:14:15 PM AEST
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wise words and so very true
michelle |
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Re: Let's Go to Poetry School
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by a_bear on
Monday, 1st March 2004 @ 02:29:44 PM AEST
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| bah humbug LOL....why not stumble around in the dark and let people laugh at us???? I'm going to that convention in Orlando this week-end...It's a bunch of...well; just going for fun. Don't know what poem to submit...thinking of my worst one since it's a sham anyway....whadaya think???? |
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Re: Let's Go to Poetry School
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by Former_Member on
Monday, 1st March 2004 @ 02:31:42 PM AEST
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Your words are smart but
I write from my heart
No one knows that
but me
Publish it not
perish the thought
It's only written
for me |
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Re: Let's Go to Poetry School
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by lovingcritters on
Monday, 1st March 2004 @ 09:29:15 PM AEST
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Thank you dear Prof....your advice will not be forgot, but I write "outside' the lines. I will not conform my thoughts to someone elses ways. I write poetry as extensions of my heart, and no one has a heart like mine....therefore my poetry is unique, if not divine. I cannot write poetry like they did in their day.......I have to adapt and write it for the day where I stay. I don't write for money, no recognition......I write for the funny, and consolation. Placing boundaries on a creative mind, can be destructive,stifling I find. So, thank you dear Norm for your fine advice, you write wonderful poetry, and perhaps that's why, because you conform, but I write just to be the usual norm(normal) that's a "conword"..........I was taught that by you *smiles*
love
consue |
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Re: Let's Go to Poetry School
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by RICHARD_CAMPBELL on
Monday, 1st March 2004 @ 10:40:06 PM AEST
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Hi norm,
it best to write how one feel about life,love and one's believe.
I would never copy another man's work or words.
thats like stealing that man soul.
I LIKE THIS . |
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Re: Let's Go to Poetry School
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by Stitch on
Tuesday, 2nd March 2004 @ 09:54:27 AM AEST
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Alas, dear Norm
from where I sit
there's no one with your
clever wit
To my own words
I will be true
and learn all that I can
from YOU!
Best,
Stitch |
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Re: Let's Go to Poetry School
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by jaeann on
Tuesday, 2nd March 2004 @ 10:36:33 PM AEST
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| aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh yes my friend.....how else to evolve and learn than to study fom the masters........so eloquently put norm............ |
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