OUR OWN VERSEMAKRES.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 147, 23 June 1928, Page 15

OUR OWN VERSEMAKRES.

OJd Rather.:.\Vinter /Ms. ,opened'his; And released Jack- Frost" and'his'elves ■ once,more. ."•••".. : , ■'■•-.;■ ■'.■.■■ So busy lie's.Leon -..with his fairy : . paint, "■ ".' .:■: ..:: -.• .. . . ■ .:..'. Whilo the pictures .-he--makes 'are pretty ,and quaint. • •?'.." The ' rain if airy, .too,' has turned on tliO". tap'B, .•■.'.'"'•',' ■ -. : ■,'.", ..•'..' ■:'..'.. .":. Whilo against-the wiiiclQws .'his, wings . , he-raps. . : ; •:;>,■ ■■";:•':.. .•■. ■ The wind is a"bout, ; and he whistles and roars, ..:-.■■■ .. He ■ shrieks through the keyholes and under the doors. ■ You can't stay-inside, for lie's calling you out, : , •■''.' _. ■ . . Ho blows .off your hati and' ho' whirls you about ;i - ,■-. '■-. .. . . He snatches .the-leaves from, off the . troo, • - '' ■ :, A most frolicsome lad aiid a tomboy . is he!' • . ' JOYCE -DINNISON. Brooklyn. '.■■■■.••' . This is' the right moment for you^ verse, Joyco, don't you think so? • I'm ruther wishing it'w.ero a spring poem, ■ivith.^eather to. match!. But it's a good, oiio this time in most of the ways that matter, Tho rhymes aro right and the length of line. ..'iliovc nre .iust tiny things that, might be better. The word '■'while" usod in that sense is not good in' tho first '.verse, though it's right enough hi tho second. But anyhow you shouldn't use any word, tivice so. close together. I've put an "and" in the last I'm einstoad of your' coirimn, because I think it makes tho metro better. Do you1? It's.a''jolly verscmaking though-".. . . windy and wintry and rough. „,■ . .... and those things are just what.;,it..'nceds,to be to say what it wants to say!—Fairiel. ' . Why is a teii nis -play or like' a flshei'iiian? —Because both arc concorncd with the net. - "•••■ . ■:•■ •■-■ ;■-. '