TO: Ron Sparks
FROM: Dale Malone
SUBJECT: Poetry
RS> Just like to say that yare great poets. I really enjoy
RS> reading your ideas expressed via poetry. If I may be so
RS> bold, though, it seems to me that most poets on this board
RS> have fallen into a rut with the same rhyme scheme--ABAB,
I am guilty of that. I have never taken a class and just write what I think it is supposed to be. I suppose ABAB means that the A's and B's rhyme. So next time I will try ABBA, that sounds pretty bitch'n.
RS> or ABBA. Lets try a little variation, like a sonet, or
RS> better yet (in my eyes) write some free verse. Maybe it's
RS> just me, but I love some of your ideas SOOOO much, I'd
RS> really like to see them expressed in free verse.
What is a sonnet? Free verse I assume is more like Mark Woodson and Mark Woodruff write?
When I write my awkward thoughts,
Often am lazy and form them ABAB,
Anyone that knows can readily see,
To keep them reading, change the plots!
So I composed these few short
lines,
Choosing patterns of different kinds,
Trying to keep the audience happy,
Picking words that aren't too sappy!
So on to a sonnet, I move with
haste,
Had to look and find what it was,
Glad my computer can cut and paste,
This is tougher, my mind is fuzz,
Wow! I change it now, and on we go,
Talk about different, this is slick!
Hard to write and really know,
Keeping track is quite a trick!
Time to change and do the last
six,
This IS fun, must do it again,
To change the pace, my styles to mix,
Not to seem, like I don't use a pen,
But this is coming down to the last,
Rats, the sonnet, finished too fast!
The release of my spirit
Free to climb
Off to space and not even rhyme!
I soar, I swoop, and then
Falling
Back to reality.
This is best
Free verse gives me no
Holds-barred to my mind
Off I go
Letting fate decide my path
Must end my flight here at this point
My words are blue, I see the -end- *
*In the old days the editor only allowed you to write a limited amount of text, and when you reached within about 20 characters of your limit, the words on your screen turned BLUE and the last available character was fenced in by the “-end-”
Written by Dale E. Malone, Yes,
I did bumble and fumble.
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