Posted on September 02, 2008 by Monetizing Your Blog

<div xmlns=’http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml’>These rules for writing more pretentious poetry also work for writing more pretentious blog posts!<br/><blockquote>Need help annoying the hell out of your writer’s group? The best way is to learn how to write a pretentious poem. This lesson works best with an example, so let’s start with one of the simplest and most well known poems of all time.<br/><br/>Roses are red,<br/>Violets are blue,<br/>Sugar is sweet,<br/>And so are you.<br/><br/>This a simple poem. It is short, sweet and lacks pretension. Let’s fix it.<br/><br/><b>Step One: Add old time words nobody uses in real lif</b>e<br/><br/>Roses doth be red,<br/>Err violets are blue,<br/>Sugar is sweet,<br/>Thus so art thou.</blockquote>Read the whole thing, it’s pretty funny.<br/><br/>Via <a href=’http://www.poewar.com/7-easy-steps-to-a-more-pretentious-poem/’>7 Easy Steps to a More Pretentious Poem : PoeWar.com Writer’s Resource Center</a></div>