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Four Times Eight
by June Nazarian
copyright 07-07-2008


Age Rating: 4 to 127

 
Happiness is enigmatic
Fun to some is pain to others
Writing poetry for pleasure
I will never understand it

Eight should do it for this ditty
Syllables should make it pretty
Making rhyme and meter matter
Means you count the proper number

If I must I'll change the rhyming
So I must remove the "pretty"
Rhyming free-form oxymoron
I must stick to all the rulings

Let me find a substitution
"Syllables should make it silly?"
That's no good so I won't use it
I'll stop here before I lose it


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07-07-2008 Frank Fields    

I'm not sure what I can add to what has already been noticed. But, me being me, I can usually come up with something or two that sounds reasonably intelligent. XD

So: 4 stanzas, 4 lines each, each line 8 syllables in length. So, yes, 1 part of 4 x 8 makes sense. But that leaves another lonely 4, unless the piece is re-titled 4 x 8 x 4. Or 4 x 8 + 4. Or some such. Unless we just go with our greater instinct, throw reason out the window, and chuckle at the not so tiny barb, with which you're trying to *poke* the Grand Muse.

I won't even begin to attempt the alignment of "formula writing" against the value of "free verse," but at the expense of having to lose some items that made the original what it was. I really am tempted, though, to get out my math books and my books on numerology and delve a bit more deeply into the esoteric shadows you've created with this piece.

You see! I told you I could come up with something. LOL

Frank :)
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07-06-2008 Eric Gasparich    

Yay, yet another from June.

Very enjoyable overall. A few, purely personal nitpicks:

The second stanza seem almost backwards to me, in terms of flow of thought.

It almost wants to go:

"Syllables should make it pretty
Eight should do it for this ditty
Making rhyme and meter matter
Means you count the proper number"

I would change one word in the last line. The "just" jars a bit. How about "I'll stop there (or 'here') before I lose it?"

Or if you wish to keep 'just' how about:

"That's no good, I just won't use it,
I'll just stop before I lose it."

Or maybe, since you're thinking of removing the pretty how about a last line with nine:

"I'll just stop there/here before I lose it."

Just some thoughts. Otherwise, fun read, good use of rhythm.







07-04-2008 Everett (dale) Pogue    

You reminded us in a fun way that writing is "to each his own". Our methods and inspirations have a thousand faces. I know my way is not right but if something I am writing is not through in less than an hour, I am through because I am uninspired! Thanks for thirty-two. That was good! dale


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