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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460382" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0007: 2007 - Year Of Revolting Poets</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">2007, he said, was a memorable year for poetry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A world conference of poets held<br>somewhere NewMex way, came to the view<br>that the rhyming dictionary put altogether too <br>great a stricture on the structure<br>of verse, and worse; <br>it was time, for rhyme<br>(which came back into fashion <br>that year with a passion) <br>to be more relevant, <br>less of a white elephant; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">so<br>all poets who <br>wrote in English<br>(including Strine) <br>were asked to define<br>what words should be allowed appropriately to rhyme.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It took a little time; <br>since they couldn’t agree about basic words<br>(some felt that ‘ words’ shouldn’t even rhyme with ‘turds’, <br>they thought that any such ditty<br>would be shitty; <br>some thought that such a possibility of rhyme was crap, <br>and would lead to poetic mishap) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, first things first, what would be appropriate<br>to rhyme with love? <br>(which of course some pronounced luv, <br>others, lurve) : <br>some felt that rhyming it with ‘above’<br>had just a smidgen<br>of politically inappropriate reference to religion…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">* * *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The whole idea was well meant<br>but you can see just how it went –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it took until 3006<br>even just to fix<br>after long debate upon it, <br>fourteen rhyming words to cover one suitable sonnet</div><div style="margin:10px 0">by which time<br>those celebrated poets who did or didn’t rhyme, <br>while English tended to vanish, <br>were writing in Spanish<br>or Chinese; <br>bringing American-language poetry to its knees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">then vowelless txt<br>became the nxt<br>style<br>for a while<br>(which left poetry weakened, <br>bcs t cdnt b spknd) …</div><div style="margin:10px 0">* * *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I’ll have to cease this sorry tale; <br>I’ve a Hallmark card I need to mail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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somewhere NewMex way, came to the view
that the rhyming dictionary put altogether too 
great a stricture on the structure
of verse, and worse; 
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