[stylist] Poem

[Myrna Badgerow]

Well Bill I agree with Jackie. I love internal rhyme and also you use slant rhyming well also. Keep it up.  We all appreciate it!

Myrna

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> On Aug 11, 2015, at 4:58 AM, William L Houts via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Jackie Lee
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>> 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
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>> compliments. They make me  actually consider trying to get this one
>> published for Halloween somewhere. I'll be looking into that and totally let
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>> 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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