[Thunderbird]

I read it, and haven't got a clue how to do it. I tried a few times times. Stank worse than shit.

[Ahmabeliever]

Ahhah - A closet cell of poets!

And you coin a nice phrase too. Numbers are fun in verse aren't they.

Till they do this 2 them.

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by Thunderbird

I read it, and haven't got a clue how to do it. I tried a few times times. Stank worse than shit.

Oh the very nary wit,
stinking little balls of it,
Turtle's bad to not have writ,
the part how to, the needed bit.

http://hypography.com/forums/lounge/...wannabees.html

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by paigetheoracle

Could the loss of phonetics in the classroom have destroyed rhyme - in other words destroyed the rhythm of the language, so that poetry cannot survive in such barren, verbal soil? (Or is there some other cause?)

To this issue of 'destroying' the rhythm or rhyme of the language, I think it is a mistaken idea. These elements simply change over time. Language grows, and we peeps both grow it, and grow with it. There is no 'good old days'; these be them. From beat poetry, to ballads, to blues, to rap, rhyme & rhythm just won't go away.

As I was going up the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there;
he wasn't there again today,
I wish I wish, he'd stay away.
~Hughes Mearns

[Jet2]

Singing behind the shower curtain?
Or performance on stage?
Are you ready?
Or are you serious?
We don't write poetry.
Nor we craft words and phases.
Live life fully.
Or quietly fade away...

[Ahmabeliever]

Poetry, poet tree
Odes of old and ancestry
Words cascade like autumn leaves
sheltering the soil and seeds.

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by Turtle

As I was going up the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there;
he wasn't there again today,
I wish I wish, he'd stay away.
~Hughes Mearns

Hi Paige,
I don't know if you recognize this author, but in checking my reference I see he shared an interest as you do, in stimulating children's creativity. So here's a Wiki real quicky: >> William Hughes Mearns - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Turtle Out

[paigetheoracle]

Originally Posted by Ahmabeliever

Hmmm, interesting, tell me how they need to change.

Into eminem

My palms are sweaty need enough rhymes to keep this rap steady have I used spaghetti already or a yeti at a wedding throwing confetti at steady eddy man I'm goona floor us I got a thesaurus for the words in the chorus there's like taurus porous and brontosaurus...

Any MORON could do that.

Sadly the public is a moron (more-on, less-off). It wants a shallow grave or an Abu Graib for entertainment. What it doesn't want is to think or feel - to have a conscience, just get unconscious through drugs, alcohol and self-worship (celebrity that is nothing to celebrate over). To be 'response-able,' means to be present and sense, so you can make sense of the world - not drown your senses in alcohol, so that you become insensible*. Nobody wants to 'be here'. They are all running away - not into fantasy but oblivion. "It wasn't me!" "I wasn't even there!" "I didn't see anything" "I'm innocent (gullible)". This is a science site but the world is becoming an awful sight (Not the word I was originally going to use but it rhymed).

*Is that rap or crap?

[paigetheoracle]

Originally Posted by Turtle

Hi Paige,
I don't know if you recognize this author, but in checking my reference I see he shared an interest as you do, in stimulating children's creativity. So here's a Wiki real quicky: >> William Hughes Mearns - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Turtle Out

Thanks! - will look him up (Of course he may not be there but do I care? Do I despair? Maybe I'll just blankly stare at the stair and get on with my life repair).

I always thought Lewis Carrol wrote it because it was in 'Alice in Wonderland'. Seems I'm wrong (again - oh the pain, oh the shame!)

Yeh, fits in with 'Logic Lists English' because it's all rows of rhyming words. I can't teach by numbers because I'm no Math genius - perhaps I'm suffering from penius envy?

[Tormod]

I don't mind poetry becoming more accessible. While I can get touched by the classics, I find more pleasure in intelligent, contemporary poetry and lyrics. I think a lot of current singer-songwriters are great poets.

Robert Frost was a revelation to me when I was in college (as he was to a lot of people). I tend to like the shorter poets that have a certain depth to them, rather than endless pages of rhymes which just don't work for me.