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Unread 10-12-2009, 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Ann Drysdale View Post
Forgive me...

It was the ten-minute rule what done it.
The pentameter comes easy. Sorry.
I was just having so much fun. Four Brits
playing a sort of crazy word-tennis
all by themselves in the early morning.
And, if I may defend my addiction,
I was only trying to polish up
what would have otherwise been only words
counted arbitrarily on the palm
of one hand by the fingers of the oth
Worth quoting John Cooper-Clarke again I think:

Writing a poem
In seventeen syllables
Is very diffic

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