English learnt as a foster tongue
Invites the novice to compose
An original masterpiece,
It need not be in prose,
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3/5. I tried to practise writing both prose and verse. I liked 'vers libre' for the tolerance of different forms of expression, colloquial to literary.
I have tried to write both prose and verse. I find it better to keep it terse, like the old telegraphic drafting, and the new SMS. Slim volumes take less shelf space.
poetic thought about poems