Just for fun, a few thoughts on writing pomes!
Do not send
me poems written in mist!
Remove the words I cannot understand
just
leave the ones you need (take out "the clouds")
then fix
them down with ink or blood or fist.
Clench
the meaning, don’t ever let it slip.
And don’t
add extra words to fill the line.
Find a different
way of making sense
so what
you say comes tripping off your lip.
You
shouldn’t need to fiddle about with rhymes
I never really
like them anyway
I find
that rhyme can just get in the way
and make
you say things you don’t want to say
And please
don’t bring “your heart” into the verse
or tell
me that your soul is “yearning still”
or make
out that the night is “full of pain”
God! Suddenly this headache’s getting worse.
If you’ve
got something to tell me, tell me straight!
Don’t
faff about with spongy epithets;
no
symbols, similes or metaphors
just good
old English – get it on the plate!
No more
than forty lines, too, if you would,
and set
them out in Times New Roman Twelve.
Double
spaced! Please – I need some space to write
these helpful
little comments for your good.
So are we
straight now? Do you get my drift?
Clarity
and truth is everything.
A
storyline, some characters, a plot,
now that
would really give my day a lift!
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