More on list poems: an example
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Published: February 29, 2008
Andrea Potos gracefully devises a personal agenda for Emily Brontë in this fine example of a list poem:
EMILY'S LIST
"She was not the first woman to find domestic occupations sat well with
creative writing. . ." Robert Barnard, Emily Brontë.
Make the beds,
keep Tiger and Jasper
off the counterpanes.
Help Sally with the washing,
scrub front flagstones,
dining room fender.
Pick black currants with Anne,
walk on the moor before tea.
(Find the tadpole pool,
the linnet's nest.)
Peel apples for Tabby's pudding.
Read to Papa.
Walk once more,
in dusk,
open copybook--
(Winds take a pensive tone,
stars a tender fire).
--Andrea Potos
--Posted Feb. 29, 2008
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