Robert Frost
Very nearly got lost
In a snowy wood at night.
But fortunately, it turned out all right.
William Butler Yeats
Is accounted one of the greats
So much so that poor John Keats
Now has to correct the pronunciation of everyone he meets.
Ezra Loomis Pound
Wrote verse difficult and profound
The fact that even he couldn’t figure it out
Should suffice to remove any doubt.
Wallace Stevens
Was always at sixes and sevens.
He never could decide exactly
Whether to rhyme slant, or perfectly.
Edward “e e” Estlin Cummings
Marched to the sounds of different drummings.
Without making any apologies
He ended up in some anthologies.
Ogden Nash
As a poet was brash
His lines rushed out in a lengthy and seemingly unstoppable torrent
And his rhymes were abhorrent.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Was heard on occasion to say
That only the author of Euclid’s Elements
Had ever seen Beauty without habiliments.
Mr. Edward Lear
Was rather queer.
But of course, the word had a different meaning back then
So instead, one should simply say that he preferred men.
T.S. Eliot
Never ate anything smelly. It
Was only understated food
That ever suited his mood.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Died discontently
Aware that decent rhymes for Clerihew
Are, alas, very few.
Some new, some recycled, but I felt like collecting them. Sue me. A garland for NaPoWriMo. Here are a bunch more, by some other people.
Image: posthumous (of course!) portrait of John Keats by William Hilton, ca. 1822.
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I love that your rhyme and meter matches individual poets’ writing styles.😍 Congratulations on being NaPoWriMo’s featured participant today!
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Thanks! But Ogden Nash, at least, was a sitting duck…
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So cleverly done! And your Yeats and Lear actually made me lol.
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I like the E.E Cummings and T.S. Eliot poems
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Those were the hardest ones to rhyme!
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These were so much fun to read. I’m guessing they took lots of knowledge, work and good humor to create. Thanks!
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… just what I had lying around the place. Thanks for reading!
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These are fantastic!
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Thank you! They were fun to write, too.
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These were fun and amusing!
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Glad you enjoyed them! Thanks for dropping by–
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Drop some more on us for NaPoWriMo.
I keep checking since the 14th….
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Done! (And thanks for reading!) April may not be the cruelest month (I’m thinking that will come later, the way thing are going–maybe June), but damn, it’s got a lot of deadlines…
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Loved it!
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Thank you!
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The poem I wrote based on blog (or poem) titles of fellow participants in NaPoWriMo made it to an anthology. You’re in the poem, so you’re in the anthology too 🙂
This is the anthology: https://abpoetryjournal.com/napowrimo-anthology-2020/
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I love it! Thanks for the heads-up. And congratulations!
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