Another poem for the day--cummings and mockummings
Sometimes teachers give "model" assignments in poetry. The ee cummings and the student model is from
Writing the Natural Way by Gabriele Lusser Rico.
(I love this book so much....the front cover finally fell off this week.)
If you have read cummings, the student piece is a kick.
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e.e. cummings
Portrait VIII
Buffalo Bill's
defunct
who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
Jesus
he was a handsome man
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blueeyed boy
Mister Death
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And from Rico's student, Bill Irwin
Portrait VIII 1/2
e.e. someone
buried by busy ones
used to
wish yes aprils with a you
and a me
and write onetwothreefourfive poems justlikethat
by dong and by ding
he was a perceptive man
and what i want to know is
where is he now when we need him
Mister Death
Writing the Natural Way by Gabriele Lusser Rico.
(I love this book so much....the front cover finally fell off this week.)
If you have read cummings, the student piece is a kick.
*************
e.e. cummings
Portrait VIII
Buffalo Bill's
defunct
who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
Jesus
he was a handsome man
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blueeyed boy
Mister Death
****************
And from Rico's student, Bill Irwin
Portrait VIII 1/2
e.e. someone
buried by busy ones
used to
wish yes aprils with a you
and a me
and write onetwothreefourfive poems justlikethat
by dong and by ding
he was a perceptive man
and what i want to know is
where is he now when we need him
Mister Death