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On Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 1:55:13 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> George J. Dance wrote:
>
> > On 2022-05-02 6:56 p.m., W.Dockery wrote:
> >> General-Zod wrote:
> >>> George J. Dance wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
> >>
> >>>> Always Marry an April Girl, by Ogden Nash
> >>>> [...]
> >>>> April golden, April cloudy,
> >>>> Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy;
> >>>> [...]
> >>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/04/always-marry-april-girl-ogden-nash.html
> >>>>
> >>
> >>> Cool, second read
> >>
> >>
> >> Nash definitely was the master of his niche in poetry.
>
> > Oh, yeah. As an example:I remember one textbook I picked up in the last
> > half of the last century. It was very modern in its approach to verse.
> > First, it ignored rhythm / meter completely. Second, it pontificated
> > that rhyme was good only for humorous effect; and the one example of
> > rhyme it cited was Ogden Nash.
>
> > Be that as it may, I'm glad to have his poetry on the blog. This debut
> > is a bit out of the ordinary -- it reads like a love poem he dashed off
> > to his wife, whether he did or whether he designed it that way (probably
> > the latter, since his wife was born in March).
> As you know,


...says the guy who constantly screams about "obsession" and "stalking."


> much of my early years of poetry writing and study I was taught to shun rhymes, in popular culture and personal school studies

Then you had a poor teacher, at least the ones who would acknowledge you.
Given your narcissism, self-centered behavior, laziness and apparently inability to understand or grasp simple grammatical concepts, I doubt your "writing and study."
Where did you study?



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>
> My teacher and mentor Dan Barfield, as you know, famously told our class:
>
> "Rhyme is a crutch."
>
> I learned to begin to embrace rhyme, meter and form, et cetera, in these later years.

How disappointed is he today knowing you have become what you became.