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Article: If you're a poet, please show it for a contest
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- July 11, 2004
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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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Each July, like the rising heat of summer, comes the annual International Longevity Light Verse Contest.
This is our seventh competition saluting the memories of those ...