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Thread #78374 Message #1417720
Posted By: Jeanie
22-Feb-05 - 02:29 PM
Thread Name: BS: The poem that never starts..........
Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
In the same vein as your *Orange*, duellingbouzoukis, here is something written by John Maguire:
I'm writing a poem without any rhymes But I've had to redo it just dozens of goes Imagine my anger, my terrible rage As the rhymes just keep jumping right onto the sheet No sooner is one line put into its place Than the next comes along, stares me right in the eye Saying "Now that you've finished that bit of the text You've got to have me; can't you see that I'm here ?" I try for impossible words like cucumber But they overhear and awake from their snoozing I reach out for artichoke, porridge and sago But I find the gyrations just give me arthritis.