[stylist] One Poet's Woe

[Barbara HAMMEL]

Although, sometimes when you think it's awful, it's not as bad as you thought. If it's a different style for you, you may not like it. I've submitted here a few free verse poems I thought were awful and people liked them. It's all what you're comfortable with that you like.
Barbara

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> On Jul 20, 2015, at 07:29, William L Houts via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Hey Friends,
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> Just wanted to pass on an experience here.  I'd been working on a new poem for the last hour.  It was more like an exercise, which sometimes launches into a real walking talking poem.  But this morning, that's not how it worked out.  I got down to about line 7 or so, took a look at the whole thing and decided it was a spoiled confection of some sort, and threw it back into the kiln, to mix metaphors. I have a sort of long term game in which I measure my private success as a poet by the slowly ascending number of poems in my poetry folder.  But adding to the score is not to be this morning, iambic fans.  I got down to the last line, took a look at it and just torched it.  I got a few good rhymes out of it and some notions for a poem about breezes, so I'll come back to the theme. But as for this iteration?  Burn, witch, burn!
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> "Oh, Sophie!  Whyfore have you eated all de cheeldren?"
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