Peanut Gallery (HBO Poetry)

Gotta tell you I really enjoy seeing other people posting their poems on your blog… particularly the light verse.

Goes to show that poetry actually — can — be accessible and fun. Luckily for me, I had an uncommonly good high school teacher about three hundred years ago who taught us that verse could be quite entertaining… and so it was.

Unfortunately, academia has for too long exercised nearly unbridled control over written verse. The “sophisticates” decided that if poetry wasn’t dark, pretentious and obscure — and preferably free or blank verse — it wasn’t really poetry.

Possibly those days are ending. Rhythm and rhyme are buried deeply in the human psyche. It’s good to see the bloggers of HBO demonstrating this fact. Congrats to all of them as well.

The Bard of Sherman Avenue