Will Dockery wrote:

> George J. Dance wrote:
>>> General-Zod wrote:
>>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>
>>>>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>>>
>>>>> Always Marry an April Girl, by Ogden Nash
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> April golden, April cloudy,
>>>>> Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy;
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/04/always-marry-april-girl-ogden-nash.html
>>>>>
>>>
>>>> Cool, second read
>>>
>>>
>>> Nash definitely was the master of his niche in poetry.

>> Oh, yeah. As an example:I remember one textbook I picked up in the last
>> half of the last century. It was very modern in its approach to verse.
>> First, it ignored rhythm / meter completely. Second, it pontificated
>> that rhyme was good only for humorous effect; and the one example of
>> rhyme it cited was Ogden Nash.

>> Be that as it may, I'm glad to have his poetry on the blog. This debut
>> is a bit out of the ordinary -- it reads like a love poem he dashed off
>> to his wife, whether he did or whether he designed it that way (probably
>> the latter, since his wife was born in March).

> And the uniqueness of this poem in relation to most others by Nash makes it a particular favorite for me.

Seconded, and agreed upon...