Posts Tagged Rhyme
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston For a month or so, I have been ruminating about an eastern poet and one from the midwest. As time has gone on, the eastern poets and their institutions try to hold sway over the best that is done, or at least the best, judged by poets other than the writers. In plain language,...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston One of the things that stays with me, so far, is the arithmetic I learned in primary school. Add, subtract, multiply and divide. Fractions came later, percent came later than that, as I recall. This column on poetry and some other things begins its eighth year. That amounts to 84...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston When poet Walt Whitman becomes the subject of discussions or conversations at a literary gathering, many of those listening can claim to not understand. Whitman, individual that he was, tossed some poets aside because they had not used American language, words used then and now a...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Not long ago, as ideas of summer sprouted, reading projects for adults cropped up in the media. Some newspapers and magazines feature new novels and such put forward by some “expert.” My idea of reading for the summer is a newspaper at a leisurely pace, or like me, a subscrib...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston I have not searched the columns I’ve composed for the 50+ crowd, but I don’t think I have ever stated how I got my start in poetry. I am a writer and have been since I was 13, 60 years in my past. Many of you know about forgetting stuff that far back. Fast forward. I was...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Mary Tryon, a New York poet, submitted to a Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest some years back, but did not win. As chairman, I would select good poetry like Mary’s, write about it, and send my opinion and the poem(s) to the poet. Mary began to write poems in 2007. I don’t rec...
