[stylist] Poem

[Jackie Williams]

Sem,
Please do not believe that rhyming poetry is out. Of all of my published
work, it is about half and half.
It is just that it is harder to write rhyming poetry because many of our
examples by famous past poets use reversals of the modifying clause. (I will
think of the word in a minute. And some do not know the value of enjambment
to take the curse off of forced rhyme.
If you write a hundred of them, you will learn what I mean.
Our Bill uses rhyme in the most wonderful ways. Sometimes internal,
sometimes at the end of a line. He has a beautiful knack for it, and if a
rhyme is not available, he might invent a suitable word.
The reason it is often frowned on my publishers is because they have
received too many bad rhyming poems.
Many contests still have categories for rhymed poetry. Many of them are also
humorous.
At any rate, good luck with your poem. 

Jackie Lee

Time is the school in which we learn.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz	 


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Hi, Chris and Jackie. Only recently did my husband and I learn that the 
rhyming poetry seems to be out. One day I"ll have to try writing something 
that doesn't rhyme. Not sure if it'd be easier or more difficult. Being in 
bands as I have, I'm used to writing songs, and they've always rhymed and 
songs are poetry, so...but we're not exactly in the poetry know, which is 
why I dare to comment so little to poetry. Thank you both for your words and

compliments. They make me  actually consider trying to get this one 
published for Halloween somewhere. I'll be looking into that and totally let

you know if anything poems of it. I am glad you liked the feel and found it 
informative, Jackie. Perhaps that's because even though you're not into 
vampires this spoke, being written from the POV of the human servant of 
Dracula. So it was put from a human's POV, making it perhaps a little less 
foreign.
I like some vampires, vampire books, movies,  ETC, and not others. But I do 
have them featuring in my paranormal works as well as the fantasy ones, and 
as they are popular as you said, I am hopeful that they'll get where they 
need to go when the right person sees them. Right now it's actually getting 
an agent's attention that's our trouble. LOL. I'd not even mind being 
rejected if it meant one actually read something. *smiles*
Sem
I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed.
I get along with the voices inside of my head. 


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