Article: If you're a poet, please show it for a contest

JANE GLENN HAAS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
07-11-2004

If you're a poet, please show it for a contest
JANE GLENN HAAS
Date: 07-11-2004, Sunday
Section: ENTERTAINMENT
Edtion: All Editions.=.Sunday
Column: OUR TIME

Can you rhyme June and moon?

Can you measure your meter?

Is there something 'bout age

You would like to repeat here?

Can you make it profound,

A point we can ponder?

Would you rather show wit?

Does sex make you flounder?

Share it all, I mean all!

Thoughts on passage of time.

Just please, I beg please,

Keep the meter and rhyme.

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