Originally posted by Father Maurice LesterView Post
As long as you are in the mood to address such issues...
Bless you, my troisieme mi-temps janitor
Father Mo
I am under no obligation to use letters that are not sounded in speech. I am a Professor of English and can break the rules of spelling whenever I like. Shakespeare and Shaw couldn't spell (or didn't try). Once you know the rules thoroughly, you are at liberty to break them.
PS Your own spelling's not so ####-hot either, mate.
It's good. Your poetry is a hundred times better than hers. And better than Father Mo's. You have an ear and instinct for rhythm and metre and alliteration, etc.
Your poetry is good; you have real potential there.
I was going to suggest to Peter that there was no need to encourage you to submit your own poetry, but that is not nearly as painful as I was afraid of.
I put a ' in the 'were' in the last line of the second verse, btw, which I think was meant to be there.
You certainly have more of an ear for metre and rythm than that tone-deaf Helsinker does.
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