<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413836" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fashions are a passing phase for friend Jon London</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I read your words with greatest care<br> and try to see your point of view<br>Although sometimes I must declare<br> I find it difficult to do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hesitate to criticise.<br>Aware the fault may lie with me.<br> Nor dare I offer you advice.<br>You might resent it bitterly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The messages you try to send<br> to me lack simple clarity<br>I cannot see what you intend.<br>It makes no sense at all to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your random thoughts lack coherence<br>They’re neither poetry nor prose.<br> An unintended consequence<br>of fashions changing I suppose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The way that poetry is taught <br> in schools and colleges today.<br> They do not know although they ought.<br>Anything goes is not the way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Most modern so called poetry <br>can only be poetic prose<br>Although it’s written beautifully <br>Opinions differ I suppose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’ll stick to formal poetry<br>Perhaps I need the discipline<br> that rhyme and meter gives to me.<br> And free form verse I will decline.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2-Feb-09</div><div style="margin:10px 0">http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413836" data-title="Fashions are a passing phase for friend Jon London de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="I read your words with greatest care and try to see your point of view Although sometimes I must declare I find it difficult to do. I hesitate to criticise. Aware the fault may lie with me. Nor dare I offer you advice. You might resent it bitt..."></div> </div> </div>

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