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    Everybody writes poetry. When do you?

    Be it happy or sad, positive or negative?  Do you have someone in mind when YOU write it !

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    +4  Views: 366 Answers: 4 Posted: 9 years ago
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      I'm of the same opinion as the duck, don't much like writing it, never did, but I do like one or two Scottish poets. Norman MacCaigs Basking Shark is one of my favourites.



      To stub an oar on a rock where none should be,
      To have it rise with a slounge out of the sea
      Is a thing that happened once (too often) to me.

      But not too often - though enough. I count as gain
      That once I met, on a sea tin-tacked with rain,
      That roomsized monster with a matchbox brain.

      He displaced more than water. He shoggled me
      Centuries back - this decadent townee
      Shook on a wrong branch of his family tree.

      Swish up the dirt and, when it settles, a spring
      Is all the clearer. I saw me, in one fling,
      Emerging from the slime of everything.

      So who's the monster? The thought made me grow pale
      For twenty seconds while, sail after sail,
      The tall fin slid away and then the tail.



      Norman MacCaig

      9 years ago. Rating: 5
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        Ducky

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        And still......ugh!
        commented 9 years ago
        ROMOS

        It has a lot of meaning, I suppose reading between the lines isn't a duck thing.
        commented 9 years ago
        Ducky

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        Too deep for me. Never did "get" poetry and I'm pretty sure that I'm not alone. I guess that's why I've never liked it. :(
        commented 9 years ago

        ....in elementary school, probably for a valentine.

        9 years ago. Rating: 5
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          Ducky

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          <3<3
          commented 9 years ago

          Not everybody. I don't....don't even like it unless it's a silly limerick.

          9 years ago. Rating: 5
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            jhharlan

            There once was a mod named duck
            Quack quack
            Her intelligence bordered on much
            Quack quack
            She was quick with a joke
            Quack quack
            make you smile with a poke
            Quack quack
            attitude who gives a ***k
            Quack quack
            commented 9 years ago
            Ducky

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            That's it! LOL!!! Thank you.
            commented 9 years ago

            Wrote often in my teens and early 20's, as well as taking writing classes.


            My first class, when I started at the community college just for fun, was creative writing of poetry. 


            Most of my stuff has a person or incident behind it.

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