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Mangled Poetry – Distraction

This week I took a minute to look at some of the really great mangled poems of our time.  What I discovered makes a really fantastic mangled poem is distraction.  This is when someone starts to write about one thing, and halfway through the subject changes, it is similar to the “rhyme no matter what” [...]

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Mangled Poetry – Rhyming No Matter What

Mangled Poetry comes so naturally, and this week I want to revisit the “Rhyme” poem, where the meaning takes second seat to authors desire to make sure it rhymes.  This weeks rhyme scheme is a,a, b,b, c, c, I title this poem:  Plain White Tee The mood is formal The feeling is normal I wear a shirt that has no [...]

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Mangled Poetry - Haiku Revisited - Revisitor

Mangled poetry, It comes so naturally, But then I stop and see, I’ve tried so much harder than I had to. This week I’d like to revisit the Haiku, I spend so much thought on my mangled poems, and I think I give it a little too much thought.  My Haiku last time wasn’t terrible, but upon further research, [...]

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Mangled Poetry - an Ode to the Ode

Welcome to the Sunday Mangled poem.  Every week I post a mangled poem, sometimes it’s something simple with no point other than to point out that there are some terrible poems out there, or to demonstrate just how badly I can do poetry.  I do this in celebration of some of the published poems I [...]

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Mangled Poetry - Haiku

Welcome to the Sunday Mangled poem.  Every week I post a mangled poem, sometimes it’s something simple with no point other than to point out that there are some terrible poems out there, or to demonstrate just how badly I can do poetry.  I do this in celebration of some of the published poems I [...]

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