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Welcome to But Does it Rhyme?
We're a small, but hopefully growing, band of poets who like to talk about our craft and share what we've written. We'll highlight favorite poets, review new books, and explore the process of writing poetry from inspiration to conclusion. (We might venture into essays and short fiction, too.) We hope you'll like our blog — and contribute your own thought and poems.

Sally Zakariya, Poetry Editor
Richer Resources Publications

Charan Sue Wollard (LivermoreLit)
Kevin Taylor (Poet-ch'i)
Sherry Weaver Smith
(SherrysKnowledgeQuest)

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The Gift of Self

Sometimes an old friend surprises you with a new talent—or, more precisely, a talent  that has been kept hidden. That’s the case with my friend Ingrid, a California artist who, it turns out, has been writing poetry all along. Here’s one of hers that I like especially:

Scent
By Ingrid Weimann

Sometimes
the perfume of
our own flesh
is so sweet
too quickly
abandoned with
water and soap
we miss the
intoxicating
gift of the self
lasting briefly
but ever
so sweet


Ingrid Weimann, a native of Germany, is an artist, writer, and bird lover who lives in Los Angeles, California.

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Watch the Magic Happen

Somewhere in cyberland a ghostly poet is writing a poem as you watch. It’s called QuickMuse, and if you skip the outdated commentary and go straight to what the site calls the “Agon Archive,” you can choose a date, read the day’s prompt, and then watch the words appear. The poet’s challenge: write a poem in response to the prompt, and do it in 15 minutes. Watch in real time or speed it up—either way, you can almost see the poet’s fingers on the keys.—S.Z.

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What Are You Writing?

Why should we get all the bylines? Submit your latest poem—just one for now—and we’ll publish the poems we like best in an upcoming blog post. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know if the poem is accepted or published elsewhere. Send your poem, plus a few lines about yourself, in the body of an e-mail message to:

            poetryeditor@RicherResourcesPublications.com