Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TUT TUT!, by JULIA COPELAND First Line: I have written a hundred poems in the last Last Line: The hell with balder dash! (wish I had his guts!) Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
I have written a hundred poems in the last three years. Editors returned them with tears. They all had rhythm and meter, And rhyme as perfect as Peter, Pumpkin Eater; Because I believe that rhythm is a poet's first duty, Meter is the second and rhyme the third, in an expression of beauty. I have examined a pile of recent magazines to find out why my poems met rejection. Inspection . . . retrospection . . . introspection . . . dejection. Most of the poems I found were by Balder Dash, Rhyming hippopotamus with duckbilled platypus; (but he gets the cash). His poems have no rhythm or meter, And are not beautiful either. . . . I tell you, this writing game is driving me nuts. The hell with Balder Dash! (Wish I had his guts!) | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB |
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