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First Line: I have written a hundred poems in the last
Last Line: The hell with balder dash! (wish I had his guts!)
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets


I have written a hundred poems in the last three years.
Editors returned them with tears.
They all had rhythm and meter,
And rhyme as perfect as Peter, Pumpkin Eater;
Because I believe that rhythm is a poet's first duty,
Meter is the second and rhyme the third, in an expression of beauty.

I have examined a pile of recent magazines to find out why my poems met
rejection.
Inspection . . . retrospection . . . introspection . . . dejection.
Most of the poems I found were by Balder Dash,
Rhyming hippopotamus with duckbilled platypus; (but he gets the cash).
His poems have no rhythm or meter,
And are not beautiful either. . . .

I tell you, this writing game is driving me nuts.
The hell with Balder Dash! (Wish I had his guts!)





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