Like everything else he took to, Abraham Lincoln was a self-trained as a poet. He started at the task during boyhood, often using verse for satirical purposes. Here, however, is a selection from his more somber 1846 piec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/02/Abraham-Lincoln-Wrote-Poetry/It was once common for educated people in the West... ...ed people in the West to memorize large bodies of poetry . Memorization of literature was normal and expect... ...ndry. He’d been grateful for every scrap of poetry he had in his head during his enforced exile in t... ...ifying nineties rolled aro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/27/The-Case-for-Memorizing-Poetry/Redditor geni91782 thought this fill-in-the-blank school assignment completed by his daughter was worth sharing. It certainly is. Link -via TYWKIWDBI...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/29/My-Daughter-the-Poet/It rhymes, and it's funny, but Dave, wouldn't it have been easier to just print up a t-shirt? Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/19/This-Poem-Makes-No-Sense/TJ Fink has been writing up summaries of the TV show Breaking Bad in rhyming verse. Now that the first half of season five has been aired, you can read the poetic version at Unreality. Sure it contains spoilers for those...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/17/If-the-Final-Season-of-Breaking-Bad-Was-Written-by-Dr-Seuss/An entomological adventure taleby Stephen Drew, AIR staffNEWS ITEM: “An Israeli woman swallowed a cockroach and then a fork she used to try to remove the insect from her throat. The winged cockroach jumped into the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/14/The-Lady-and-the-Bug/Edgar Allan Poet - $11.95 Deep into the darknes... ...ed. And then there, the Edgar Allan Poet magnetic poetry kit from the NeatoShop wandered into sight. This...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/20/edgar-allan-poet/Hiawatha hated woodlands. by R.B. Laughlin, Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California With apologies to Lewis Carroll (and H. W. Longfellow) [EDITOR'S NOTE: The author's Nobel Prize is not in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/17/hiawathas-valence-bonding/Click on the button on Mike Keith's page, and you'll be presented with two out of a potential one octillion sonnets, both of which are anagrams of each other. Here's how: The two poems above each have the form of a cl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/27/1143839622748050000000000000-computer-generated-anagramic-sonnets/"Verily," I say, "'tis what it's all about" and I'm not just quoting that from the last line, the hokey pokey really is what it is all about and in the verse of the Great Bard, nothing could be better. Link Via Ge...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/24/shakespeare-teaches-the-hokey-pokey/