Tag: poem
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The Joy of Poetry — Part II
My last post focused on my dismay over the tendency of modern poets to deal with depressing topics. For me, poetry has always been something much more positive. That attitude may have been shaped in my childhood by gentle nursery rhymes or thought-provoking nonsense poems by Dr. Seuss. Once, as a gift for either my…
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Poem by Committee: How It Worked *
There’s an old saying that is trite but often true: “Too many cooks spoil the broth.” Get too many people managing a project and “creative differences” among them cause the project to fail. That could have happened when members of the 2022 CLSC** Class Vigil Committee were asked to help write a poem for their…