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thank you, Jan. I know I'll never be a poet, but my goal is to learn to use words more deliberately. This has been very good for me.

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When I read your lesson, I was sure this would be the week I drop out of this class. But I managed to write one. I'm not happy about the awkward sentence structures, but it's the only way I could make the rhyme and meter work. I wish I could just say what I mean to and it would naturally come out in...

Catrina,
I love it!
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Phee, think of writing a poem as building a rock wall or doing a mosaic. You have all these pieces (words), you sort through them to find just the right shape and color. You rearrange them until they are just the way you like them. Thanks, Vonnie. I'm starting to see that. My problem is that I don'...

I think I'm starting to understand the process of writing a poem. First I found an image, then I looked for a deeper meaning. Then I wrote the first two lines and scanned them. Then I looked for rhymes. Then I tried to get the message into a phrase that ended with the right rhyme. Then I played with...

glorybee wrote:It’s not enough to just master rhyme and meter—

Great. I haven't mastered rhyme and meter yet and you throw something else at me. : )

Poem (if you can call it that) to come later.

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Gerald,
My prayers are with you too. I can't imagine the pain you're feeling.
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It's getting harder. What am I going to do when you get to epic poetry? The hardest part of this poem was trying to find a word that started with the right letter but still conveyed the meaning I wanted. I'm not sure why I opted for rhyme, since that's so hard for me. And the meter is all over the p...

Allison, that's a great one! Good question about the rhyming. My preference would be the more exact rhyme--go with "Bashville." There's some rule about rhyming words of more than one syllable. I'm too sleepy to say it absolutely correctly, but it's something like this: when rhyming words ...

Phee, this one is AWESOME! You know you can always get me with a kitty poem--and this one is also flawless in rhyme, meter, and limericky-ness! But no pun. But thanks for the encouragement. For someone with no rhythm (I can't even clap in time), I seem to be getting meter pretty well. It's rhyme th...

Each of your lessons reinforces my total lack of poetic talent. I don't like writing poetry, but I'm determined to do it because it's so good for me to have to follow rules and play with words. There once was a mean little kitty Whose hunger was not very pretty For food she would beg By biting my le...

CatLin wrote:
I having SUCH FUN reading everyone's clerihews!

Me too. I didn't know what they were called, but I've always loved this genre, even though I hate writing them. My favorite is the Lancelot one.

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I still hate it, but I have to try again.

Billy Buck
Is the Red Sox schmuck
He’ll never make the Hall of Fame
Because his error lost the game


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I don't like having to say something in rhyme. Here's my poor attempt. Is this a forced rhyme or just bad grammar?

Richard Simmons
Is loved by the womens
Who shake their booties
Because he tells them they can be beauties

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I ask for water
Pepsi or Coke, matters not
If not caffeine free