[stylist] Poem

[William L Houts]

Thank you so much, Jackie; it's much appreciated, especially as I think 
you are one of the greater talents here as well.  Hope your summer has 
gone swimmingly.

--Bill





On 8/10/2015 10:05 AM, Jackie Williams via stylist wrote:
> 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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