Poetry

In honor of Poetry Day, I offer another no sales pressure day. Enjoy:

There once was a mom with three kids,

With a rule that strictly forbids,

They grew up so fine,

Oh yes they did whine,

And now they are glad that she dids.

Ashley girl with eyes of blue,

Soon they’ll have their eyes on you.

Boys with cars,

Boys in bars,

Much to your parents ado.

There was a boy named Dandy Don

Who loved to work and mow his lawn

He snipped the grass

Oh, no, alas

His foot is now foregone.

Little Kyle from Mississippi,

Why are you so hippie chippy?

Is it the peas?

Or grits’n cheese?

Or just ‘cause your from ‘sippi?

Magnolia tree out in the yard.

Trunk so old it’s very marred.

A little push,

From my wee tush,

Would catch you so off guard

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Poetry

Last week, while sitting on my little sofa, a poem started up in my head. It involved my kitty, Lizzie and I finished it in a little under an hour. Well, the first version. It occurred to me that there was a writing contest with a deadline drawing near. The 'rules' say the poem had to be a certain length and I had to shave off a few stanzas. Poetry is harder and easier than poets let on.  Does that make sense??

There are hundreds of popular poets in history and hundreds of thousand of other poets, published and unpublished.

Today, at HandMeDownHaven.com, I have put on special a memoir of Cowper including illustrations of favorite places and selected works. I personally like Cowper's The Retired Cat, which is not in this collection, but was the reason I picked up this volume in the first place. Please take a look at Cowper's Illustrated.

Who are your favorites. Giesel? Frost? Hughes, Silverstein? Crane, Cummings? Wordsworth, Angelou? Yeats, Wilde? So many. So many.

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