Writing Poetry

Poetry is more than just something you read when you're happy, or sad, or bored. (Okay. Maybe a lot of people don't read poetry when they're bored, but they could.) Poetry is also something you can write. "No way!" you say. But you can. There are lots of types of poems. (You probably find yourself rhyming sentences now and then, even if you don't mean to.)

After reading poets like Yeats, poetry can be a bit intimidating. But did you know that even limericks are poetry (although some would disagree). Here is a limerick posted at poetry-0nline.org.

There are many websites about poetry, and those that give you advice about writing it as well. Http://www.poetry-online.org does both.

Here is the limerick I want to leave you with this time. Read it and enjoy it for what it is...a little something to keep away the boredom. No. No. No. It's a poem, and one to make you laugh as well.

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There was an Old Man with a beard,

Who said, 'It is just as I feared!

Two Owls and a Hen,

Four Larks and a Wren,

Have all built their nests in my beard!'

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(Limerick from: http://www.poetry-online.org/limericks.htm)

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