{"id":3022,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3022"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","slug":"pleasing-the-judges","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/p-poems\/pleasing-the-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"Pleasing the judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Pleasing the judges<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 19, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nFlowing like butter on toast in the morning<br \/>\nOil in an engine, or water downhill<br \/>\nRhyme like a bell that is rung for a warning<br \/>\nClock on a church spire when weather is still<br \/>\nThe poems we seek are all rhyming and flowing<br \/>\nBeautifully worded and sounding like song<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re a poet with talent for showing<br \/>\nThen this is a contest that cannot go wrong<\/p>\n<p>Sonnets and villanelles, ottava rima<br \/>\nAnything rhyming with meter sublime<br \/>\nAn ode or a ballad that tells of a dreamer<br \/>\nNo awkward corners and plenty of rhyme<br \/>\nTriplets or monorhyme, couplets or rubai<br \/>\nExact and not slanting if you want to win<br \/>\nForm found in Texas or somewhere near Dubai<br \/>\nJust pull up your muse and it&#8217;s time to begin<\/p>\n<p>Look at the theme and then write us a beauty<br \/>\nEdit and polish it make sure it shines<br \/>\nCareful attention&#8217;s a good poet&#8217;s duty<br \/>\nMatch up the sounds of the words on the lines<br \/>\nAll of the entries are read by the judges<br \/>\nThree or four times in our heads and aloud<br \/>\nSo if you write rhyme and you never bear grudges<br \/>\nWrite us a verse that will make you feel proud<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThis is an &#8220;example poem&#8221; for &#8220;The Rhyme and Flow Challenge&#8221; run by Sue<br \/>\nCardwell and me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pleasing the judges by cricketjeff on July 19, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Flowing like butter on toast in the morning Oil in an engine, or water downhill Rhyme like a bell that is rung for a warning Clock on a church spire when weather is still The poems we seek are all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9734,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3022","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8486,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3022\/revisions\/8486"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}