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A couple more poems October 25, 2005 - 19:09:15
So here's my most recent attempt for Creative Writing class. The assignment was a syllabic, and I'm trying to decide whether my teacher is going to applaud me or shoot me in the face:
Satire
How can I write a sylla
bic? They seem kind of strange and
bizarre. It's hard to cram all
of my thoughts into such a
laborious process as
this. So I decided to
write a bit differently--
something no one would expect.
This poem, you see, is syll
abic, but it's also ir-
rev'rent at best. I hope that
you have as difficult a
time reading it as I did
writing this damnable wreck.
And here's one that I wrote a while back, but which I'm certain Trae will enjoy. We had to use a number of terms or ideas from a list that we were given in the previous class period, hence the black nightgown and a couple of the other oddities.
The ghost of Emily Dickinson—
Came to me in a dream
Wearing only—a black nightgown—
It was kind of racy—
And she looked at me—
In the way you would suppose that—
Old, dead women who—never got
Out of the house much would look at you—
And she said—
Have you noticed that all—
All—of my poems sound
Just a bit like the—Yellow Rose of Texas?
In secret I have often
Made note of that fact—
But I wanted to—please her—
So I said—I hadn’t really noticed
Soon I'm going to start trying to get some fiction up here. Hopefully most of it will be original, but I do have this positively ancient fanfic that I swore I'd finish before I died... I don't know if it's worth continuing, tho. Give me a couple days to look it over.
- LeBlanc
Forgive my German major ignorance but what is a syllabic? I understand that it's a type of poem, so no smartass answers.
I like the Emily Dickenson one. I got a good chuckle out of it.
Radioactive... red... Post Comment link... must turn it... black.
I see a red link and I want to paint it black...
A syllabic is a kind of poem, duh. ;-)
No, seriously you guys, a syllabic is a kind of poem that has to have the exact same number of syllables in each line (in this case, seven). The humor is that usually those lines would be measured out neatly so that the words didn't get cut in half, etc. Like I said, my prof is either going to bust up laughing or shoot me in the face.
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