Woot: The Community: World of Woot: [little tree], A Christmas Poem

Dec 20, 2010 11:00 AM
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WootBot

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After learning how many of you love poetry, we made a resolution to try and class up the joint by adding a few more posts aimed at the snooty literati. Today we're linking you to Poetry Magazine, where we've found a lovely Christmas poem from the great e.e cummings. It's called [little tree] and we hope that you enjoy it! Also we hope you discuss it in our forums so that we can look like we're smart and then maybe get that MacArthur Genius Grant we've been hoping for. Oh, um, we mean "for which we'd been hoping."

And for those of you who don't care about poetry, we offer this.

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Tattle

Dec 20, 2010 11:49 AM
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madfrisbee

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I like it. Always have been a fan of Cummings. I remember first reading one of his poems in a high school lit class, and being amazed and excited that this guy could get away with creating his own rules for capitalization and punctuation - I aspired to be that guy.

I failed.

But I do like the poem. AND the electric eel.

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Tattle

Dec 20, 2010 4:45 PM
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Teripie

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Doesn't rhyme.Why do so many 'poems' not rhyme?

“Anything is a great deal at some price,” Some Rutledge Guy.

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Tattle

Dec 20, 2010 5:10 PM
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Slydon

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Teripie wrote:Doesn't rhyme.Why do so many 'poems' not rhyme?

Roses are red, Eddie Murphy's Delirious;
I'd like to think that you're not being serious.

Hi, I'm one of the writers. My powers are limited but I'll do what I can.

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Tattle

Dec 20, 2010 5:41 PM
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ActorTom

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Teripie wrote:Doesn't rhyme.Why do so many 'poems' not rhyme?

When one chooses not to write in prose,
we call it poetry,
Even though everyone knows,
nothing rhymes with it.

from a B.C. comic strip by Johnny Hart