[stylist] A poem that I'm sure needs much work to look likeitssubject matter

[Barbara HAMMEL]

Lynda, I mentioned those poets because, besides Keats and Yeats which I only have one or two by, The others seem to be my favorite poets because in my collection of others' writing they top the list.
Barbara

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> On Oct 7, 2014, at 17:40, Lynda Lambert via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I think you accomplished what you wanted to do in  this poem, Barbara. I really like it very much.  You word choices work well with the theme. I also like your notion of collecting words you like. I have been doing that as well. There are some particular words that really hit me in a sweet spot when  I think of them or hear them.  - I like how they look on the page, how the letters in a word work together , and where the word takes me in my mind.  On the reverse of that, I also have words that I cannot stand to hear when they are spoken, or when I even think of them.  I am making a list of those words, too. One day, I will work with my two lists when I can spend some time on it.  There are some words that are used all the time that just give me a shudder.  Your list of poets at the end has made me stop to think awhile on the ones you selected, and why those particular ones, and I am still thinking on that.  So you left me with a little bit of a puzzle to think about for another time. Lynda
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> -----Original Message----- From: Applebutter Hill via stylist
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 2:40 PM
> To: 'Barbara Hammel' ; 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [stylist] A poem that I'm sure needs much work to look likeitssubject matter
> 
> Barbara,
> Again, I'm no critic of poetry, but I love this. The words themselves have
> so much power; what a great idea to keep a list and then feather them out
> through a single poem.
> Donna
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Barbara
> Hammel via stylist
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 9:42 AM
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> Subject: [stylist] A poem that I'm sure needs much work to look like
> itssubject matter
> 
> Here's a poem that I have incorporated most of my favorite words from a word
> list I've had for years been keeping.
> 
>  WOULD THAT I
>   By Barbara Hammel
> 
> Would that I could write a rhyme
> With language that of olden time,
> I'd write of fragrant roses blown
> And violets by a mossy stone,
> 
> I'd write of gentian's bluest eye --
> A smallest bit of cerulean sky --
> Of columbines all purple dressed
> And how the lilacs are the best,
> 
> Of hyacinths purple and white and blue,
> And how they're kissed by the morning dew.
> I'd write of the zephyr that gently blows And how the rainbow brightly
> glows,
> 
> Would that I could write as they,
> The poets of an earlier day.
> The words they chose are flowers fair,
> They are the spice of mountain air,
> 
> They are the fire in precious stones,
> And the melodies within twelve tones,
> They are the star's eternal flame,
> They are Beauty by every name.
> 
> A freshly-fallen coat of snow,
> The calm of ocean's ebb and flow,
> They're constant as a running stream
> And faithful as the soft moonbeam.
> 
> Would that I were gifted so,
> As Bryant, Shelley, Longfellow,
> As Riley, Whittier, Dunbar, Keats
> As Emerson, Lowell, Guest and Yeats.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.--Robert Frost
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