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Array ( [sid] => 151057 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Modern Poetry Blues [time] => 2009-06-26 04:56:01 [hometext] => A (song) comment on Poetry on the Underground, London, UK [bodytext] => You see it on the Underground,
It's written on the wall
Some call it modern poetry,
It isn't that at all
It should be crafted like a song
That's played without a tune
It should be gentle, like a plum
Not wrinkled like a prune.

Refrain: No metre, no rhyme, no syntax, no time
That stuff, you must excuse
Its doggerel, rubbish, trashy and crap
The modern poetry blues

Now doggerel is common metre
Not needing to have rhyme
As long as it goes with the flows
That stream the length of time.
If you forget about the beat,
You would not be averse
To let me off the last word of
The first line of this verse

Refrain

Those little secret messages
Are hidden in the text
But words they choose, begin to lose
The meaning of the next.
Still see it on the Underground?
Still read it on the wall?
The people who select that work
Have nothing like taste at all!

Refrain
[comments] => 1 [counter] => 153 [topic] => 7 [informant] => Richard1506 [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => HumorPoetry )

Modern Poetry Blues

Contributed by Richard1506 on Friday, 26th June 2009 @ 04:56:01 AM in AEST
Topic: HumorPoetry

You see it on the Underground,
It's written on the wall
Some call it modern poetry,
It isn't that at all
It should be crafted like a song
That's played without a tune
It should be gentle, like a plum
Not wrinkled like a prune.

Refrain: No metre, no rhyme, no syntax, no time
That stuff, you must excuse
Its doggerel, rubbish, trashy and crap
The modern poetry blues

Now doggerel is common metre
Not needing to have rhyme
As long as it goes with the flows
That stream the length of time.
If you forget about the beat,
You would not be averse
To let me off the last word of
The first line of this verse

Refrain

Those little secret messages
Are hidden in the text
But words they choose, begin to lose
The meaning of the next.
Still see it on the Underground?
Still read it on the wall?
The people who select that work
Have nothing like taste at all!

Refrain

Copyright © Richard1506 ... [ 2009-06-26 04:56:01]
(Date/Time posted on site)

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Re: Modern Poetry Blues (User Rating: 1 )
by Mars on Friday, 26th June 2009 @ 08:02:53 AM AEST
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The first thing that hit me was, not like a prune? Some people like the prunes of poetry! There is no correct way to write poetry. It is an expression of you.

"The Modern Poetry Blues" is often a problem at some high school poetry clubs that I've been to. Many, if not most, people there write their poetry with too little emotion, or the poetry is forced. As a result, the flow is not as good as it could have been, and the forced rhyme perverts the meaning. Although I do have a few blank verse and other more abstract poems that I like, I usually prefer to rhyme or maintain a meter in order to better unify the work,which is of utmost importance to me, as my work is often most valued for its flow. Well, it is the way they choose to express themselves, as I said before, but I digress.

Anyway, great write! It might actually make a sort of 'song', with a little modification...

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