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I need to write a poem and I don't know shit about poetry. Anyone have an example of a good short poem? Don't care who wrote it.

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>> No.1459086

Mirror

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
What ever you see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful---
The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.
Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

free verse poems are easy to write, Plath writes em pretty well

>> No.1459094

Look up "The Tay Bridge Disaster" by William McGonagall.

>> No.1459113

>>1459080

That's not perfect Iambic Pentameter.

>> No.1459126

There once was a man from Nantucket
Whose dick was so long he could suck it.
And he said with a grin
As he wiped off his chin,
"If my ear was a cunt, I would fuck it."

go with a limerick