Hornet Season

[Maureen K Clifford]

my pre menstrual tension shows up - or it used to but PM messages - sometimes yes, sometimes no , have no eye dear why this is so.

Didn't make spell check even flinch that one.

[Neville Briggs]

Isn't it nice when a man is wrong

Oh dear dear me, poor old Uncle Neville .

The eminent British poet John Whitworth ( a fine contemporary writer of rhyme and metre )
in his book Writing Poetry, gives this list on pages 109..110.

TYPES OF RHYME
1. Full rhyme. great/mate/contemplate

2. rime rich or perfect rhyme. great/great/grate

3. Eye rhyme great/sweat/feat

4. Pararhyme great/groat/greet

5. Assonance ( of vowels ) great/frail/displayed

6. Consonance ( of consonants ) great/coat/repeat

[Zondrae]

G'day Neville,

I still would not use assonance in a poem unless it was not in the general rhyming pattern.
When you have been told by Australian Judges it is unacceptable, you would be silly to persist.

[Neville Briggs]

The competitions are a bit of enjoyment and give some people something to work towards, but I think there can be a bad side to competitions ..legalism, it's a pity.

Anyway, we do our verse each one in the way we choose, that's as it should be.

[Bob Pacey]

No Neville ya gotta follow the RULES ! I always do.


Bout time for a rum and cola me thinks.


Robert Alan.

[r.magnay]

...yeah well, I have been a Banjo and Henry fan for years....and years, and there are many of their poems...including "The Man From Snowy River" which could not....or should not win, an ABPA ruled comp! One of the things that is always critiqued...in our poetry...(the mere mortals) is inversions, that poem has more than one, and there are many amongst those blokes writing!....I guess they didn't write competition poems under the ABPA rules...