[1768] An Attempt At Unrhymed Verse

Guest poem submitted by Monica Bathija, <irmonica@>:

People tell you all the time,
Poems do not have to rhyme.
It's often better if they don't
And I'm determined this one won't.

                             Oh dear.

Never mind, I'll start again.
Busy, busy with my pen...cil.
I can do it if I try--
Easy, peasy, pudding and gherkins.

Writing verse is so much fun,
Cheering as the summer weather,
Makes you feel alert and bright,
'Specially when you get it more or
    less the way you want it.

	-- Wendy Cope

Here's one more by Wendy Cope, increasingly a favourite along with Sara
Teasdale thanks to Minstrels. Pencil and gherkins. Isn't that just so much
an effortless effort...

I loved it.

Monica.

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http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1765.html
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