[stylist] Poem

[Jackie Williams]

Barbara,
When you think you are out of style, think about Shakespeare. He is the
prime example of what is no longer practiced. But still he lives as the
greatest poet and stage play writer of many years.
Life is like a pendulum in many ways. It just keeps swinging back and forth.
There is nothing wrong with your brain. You are Barbara, and are unique and
have your own operating manual.

Jackie Lee

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


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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Barbara
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What I don't understand is why things must go out of style.  I, for one, 
think word reversal is quaint and enjoy doing it.  I guess, though, I fall 
in the category of bad poetry writers like Edgar Guest and his ilk. 
Frankly, I don't understand why it is considered bad poetry.  I like it. 
Hey, does that make me a bad poetry writer who'll never get anywhere even if

I tried?
I will admit, that even my unpracticed eye can spot some forced rhymes in 
mine.  Rhyming poems are hard to write but to some it comes naturally and 
the non-rhyming kind is impossible to write.  Funny how our brains work, 
isn't it.
Barbara




Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.--Robert Frost
-----Original Message----- 
From: Jackie Williams via stylist
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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


-----Original Message-----
From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Semirhage via
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Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2015 10:56 PM
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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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