Are your poems gently moving?
    Do they dance upon the page?
Does your reader feel uplifted
    Or consumed with inner rage?

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Are they journeys in your language
    Or just words that never shine?
Do they lift your readers’ spirits
    Like a glass of ruby wine?

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Do you symbolize good literacy?
     Check carefully for mistakes,
For a moment with a spell check 
      Is all it really takes.

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Does your imagery and resonance
    Create emotional appeal?
Does your reader understand you
   Or is your message not revealed?

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Don’t unload your angry feelings 
    Into words upon the page,
For your readers will lose interest
     In your misery and rage!

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Test your poems on an audience –
   Try your mother or your dad -
For I’m sure when others hear them
    They will say they’re not too bad.

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Copyright on all my poems

 

 

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