Your Poem Editing Checklist Comic poem by Angela LansburyYou need to check on youngsters every hour. Set an alarm. Call the babysitter or grandparent. Or keep a whatsapp Facetime on permmanently.roudly send

 

1 Does it have rhythmic beat like marching feet?

2 Does your poem have new, surprising rhyme ?

3 Recall it now, easy as trotting down the street?

4 Read aloud, repeat it another time?

5 Did you smile, adding alliteration?

6 Similes and visual metaphors?

7 Don't randomly cut, lose punctuation

8 It needs more work, add signals, tweak, add more

9 Rewrite, polish till reach a satisfying end

10 Then proudly send to me, your reading friend. 

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copyright Angela Lansbury 2023 April 2nd

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