Thank you Noel for starting this excellent subject and all the subsequent contributors.

I have truly learned from your posting on this subject. My love of poetry was inspired by a professor at the University of Winnipeg ( Canada ) years ago that has stayed with since.


Those were the days!!!


Can't help wonder if those 'gangsta rappers and the garbage they spew will every achieve the recognition of for example the Gershwin's or Ella Fitzgerald ? ( my comment/question is intended to ridicule those 'rappers )