Headachey Makey
I've writ this poem 'bout Emily
Dickinson I mean
It's causing me great problems
Like others will have been
Her effect on me is worrying
It's giving me headachey
But I will persevere, I will
Despite headachey makey
Now Emily would never stoop
To all such grimey rhymey
But I am just a learning poet
Firing up on winey
Don Matthews July 2018
The poem is entitled 'Oh to write like Emily' .It's hard writing (in rhyme) about a complex poet who wanted all her work destroyed. What attracted me was they were short rhymes, but so puzzling. A challenge you could say. And with titles like 'My life had stood - a loaded gun' and 'I felt a funeral' and 'Because I could not stop death' I couldn't resist her attraction....
Ghazala Lari
Sat 5th Oct 2019 04:58
The poem seems to have a good start, creates curiosity, something kind of suspense.....m sure there is a thriller coming up..just waiting for the poem.
Hurry!!! Curiosity kills the cat?
Ghazala, Do.RoThY
How interesting Ghazala. I like how her work is so tight, yet so complex. I'm also attracted to her use of rhyme. I always need to go to analysis to fully understand.
I am serious when I say I have writ a poem. And yes it did headachey makey me. Will post it sometime. Here's a verse
Every line a puzzle
Waiting to unwind
Taut with strange intensity
Created in her mind.....
Ghazala Lari
Fri 4th Oct 2019 17:10
Today i happened to teach A narrow fellow in the grass to my students.
Great write!!?
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Ghazala Lari
Sat 5th Oct 2019 10:45
They sound like a movie of todays time. She should have been a script writer born now.
It does rings a gong in the head. Seriously i had always thought her to be a poet unlike your analysis.
Keep fuelling your think tank and keep sharing!!