Array ( [sid] => 36908 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Let's Go to Poetry School [time] => 2004-03-01 11:17:55 [hometext] => A refresher course can't hurt [bodytext] => We're all sitting 'round and writing like mad,
How do we know if our poetry's bad?
I have a way of checking our stuff,
I'll tell you now; No reason to bluff.

Aiken, Conrod: Miracles and meetings
*****s, E.E.: Cambridge Ladies, Buffalo Bill, Picasso
Elliot, T.S.: Morning at the Window, Many more
Kilmer, Joyce: Trees
Lowell, Amy: Solitaire, A Lady
Pound, Ezra: An Immortality, Alba, Many more
Sandburg, Carl: Chicago, Fog
Service, Robert The Cremation of Sam McGee
Teasdale, Sara: On the Dunes, The Long Hill
Wylie, Elinore: Wild Peaches

Then There's: Dickenson, Emily...Melville, Herman...Lowell, James Russell
Whitman, Walt...Thoreau, Henry, David...Holmes, Oliver, Wendell
Poe, Edgar, Allen...Longfellow, Henry, Wadsworth
Whittier, James, Greenleaf...Emerson, Ralph, Waldo

SEARCH all their names, see what they wrote,
See why they're famous...poets of note.
Don't steal their words, see how they write,
Take pad and pencil and sit down tonite.

If you continue to write by the seat of your pants,
Like having green thunbs but not watering plants.
It just might be better to study their lines,
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Let's Go to Poetry School
Date: Monday, 1st March 2004 @ 11:17:55 AM AEST
Topic: Sad Poetry

Contributed By: norm
We're all sitting 'round and writing like mad,
How do we know if our poetry's bad?
I have a way of checking our stuff,
I'll tell you now; No reason to bluff.

Aiken, Conrod: Miracles and meetings
*****s, E.E.: Cambridge Ladies, Buffalo Bill, Picasso
Elliot, T.S.: Morning at the Window, Many more
Kilmer, Joyce: Trees
Lowell, Amy: Solitaire, A Lady
Pound, Ezra: An Immortality, Alba, Many more
Sandburg, Carl: Chicago, Fog
Service, Robert The Cremation of Sam McGee
Teasdale, Sara: On the Dunes, The Long Hill
Wylie, Elinore: Wild Peaches

Then There's: Dickenson, Emily...Melville, Herman...Lowell, James Russell
Whitman, Walt...Thoreau, Henry, David...Holmes, Oliver, Wendell
Poe, Edgar, Allen...Longfellow, Henry, Wadsworth
Whittier, James, Greenleaf...Emerson, Ralph, Waldo

SEARCH all their names, see what they wrote,
See why they're famous...poets of note.
Don't steal their words, see how they write,
Take pad and pencil and sit down tonite.

If you continue to write by the seat of your pants,
Like having green thunbs but not watering plants.
It just might be better to study their lines,
The fount of the words on which poetry mines.

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