[stylist] Poem

[William L Houts]

Thank you, Myrna.  It's a gifted, perceptive  group in general we have 
here, and I'm proud to be among that number.


--Bill


On 8/11/2015 5:49 AM, Myrna Badgerow via stylist wrote:
> 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!
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> Myrna
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> Sent from my iPhone
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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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>> --Bill
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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.
>>>
>>> Jackie Lee
>>>
>>> Time is the school in which we learn.
>>> Time is the fire in which we burn.
>>> Delmore Schwartz
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>>> Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2015 10:56 PM
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>>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Poem
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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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