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O TO BE A POET

I thought i'd have a go

at writing a poem

a man I know said

it has to flow.

 

I thought it would have to rhyme

as well,

but he said not necessarily,

but mention that you get depression

 

everyone will enjoy confession.

Take a few ideas from Wordsworth

using nature to make your words worth

more (that's a device to overrun a line)

 

that's what he told me,

then all you need to do is read it out

to your friends, the ones you care about.

They're open minded

 

and do karioky

that makes them creative

so that'll be ok.

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raypool

Mon 29th May 2017 19:23

For all who commented I feel I should point out that I deliberately misspelled Karaoke as Karioky ! Not that you all didn't know that.

Ray

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raypool

Mon 29th May 2017 19:22

Suki, I am relieved that you thought this kind as I felt I took a liberty at the expense of some aspiring writers. So thanks for that especially!!

Thanks Paul. You're the sort of neighbour I would like when I pull the curtains apart !

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Paul Waring

Mon 29th May 2017 11:25

Well done Ray, you made this brother chuckle and for that aythangyow ?

Paul

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suki spangles

Mon 29th May 2017 10:07

Astute, kind and witty, Ray.

Nice one!

Suki

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raypool

Sun 28th May 2017 21:09

Well, Ben I thank you for picking up on this and your straightforward response to it! Glad you enjoyed it.

I enjoyed your travels around my poem Col. You're right to point out all the foibles and fancies and I sense a wide eccentric taste spectrum , which I fully concur with . I agree us poets do have a drive to express; if only it was as simple as my pretend formula!

David, my mate - pithy and precise with a soupcon of ironic humour which obviously works perfectly !

Mark, thanks for going the extra mile with your assessment.
There's not much we can do about Hollywood and its hijackings .

Cynthia, nice and precise and worth a lot thank you.

Love to all. Ray

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Sun 28th May 2017 16:12

Clever, bright and funny.

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M.C. Newberry

Sun 28th May 2017 15:41

There certainly seems a degree of truth in the reversal
today of those famous lines of yesteryear and we are now
encouraged to...
"Cry and the world cries with you,
Laugh and someone will moan..."!
But modern poetry is not alone and it is easy to see that
Hollywood remains the prime example of misery and failings
of the human condition being awarded prizes when
comedies and the like, however skilful and uplifting, are bypassed.

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Sun 28th May 2017 08:26

I often think writing poetry is one of the weirdest things we can choose to do in life and standing up reciting it is the second weirdest. But like all unfathomable needs it becomes almost obsessional and now that we don't have to obsess about hunting and gathering the whole day through we can give ourselves up to these daft obsessions - like cycling in lycra, twitching, train spotting, car booting, collecting ornaments of pigs. Nothing can stop us. Hang on, it's Sunday, best nip to the car boot and get me a chipped china piggy to put in my hermit's cave next to the railway tracks where the birds nest and there will I recline in vestments of the finest lycra as I pen an ode and pretend to be a poet. Did I mention my depression?
C?L

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Ben Chronister

Sun 28th May 2017 02:33

I love this because it explains what poetry is and i love that
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