Choice
By luigi_pagano
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If I had my way,
on National Poetry Day
this would be my choice:
to silence the voice
of those poets whose odes
are written in codes,
are praised to the skies
and always win first prize.
They say that I'm jealous
and overzealous
with my critique
simply out of pique.
My verse is too clustered,
doesn't cut the mustard
and it is so sad
that my poetry is bad.
But I think my crime
is that my poems rhyme.
© Luigi Pagano 2021
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Aha, Di. I could not resist a
Aha, Di. I could not resist a dig at highfalutin would-be-writers. Glad you enjoyed the joke. 
Luigi x
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I sometimes wonder if those
I sometimes wonder if those praising some pieces really understand them (I am aware of being very slow to understand even Shakespear myself, without a teacher leading my thoughts), or merely like some parts, and like the sound flow of the words.
Rhyme seems to have got a bad press because of an insistence maybe at one time that pieces had to rhyme, and the results sometimes being unpleasant with forced rhymes that jar on the ears. Whereas rhyming if it can be done properly doesn't draw attention to itself (except occasionally for fun), but it unobtrusively helps the flow and the rhythm, and readabiltiy and memorability, the impact of the piece. In other words, if it's not someone's 'thing' to do properly, they shouldn't and needn't use it, but not to condemn therefore those who can do so, but judge the result fairly! Rhiannon
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Dear Tom, poet rhymes with
Dear Tom, poet rhymes with know it, therefore it can be said that you are a versifier.
Cheers, Luigi.
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