the University Concourse Volume III, Issue 6 April 30, 1998 Table of Contents

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Everyone's a poet

by JMS

Your rhymes are too rhymey!
(He snarled in disgust.)
Take them outside
If write them you must.
Your meter's too measured--
Style's always the same.
Alliteration allures you
To play its dumb game.
You're like all the others
Who think they are poets.
The soul is the thing--
But you do not know it!
You get hung up in structure,
So this poem will fail.
And if I had my druthers
I'd finish it in blank verse.

--jms