Ogden Nash

A Word To Husbands by Ogden Nash

To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;
Whenever you’re right, shut up.

The Parent by Ogden Nash

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore

And that's what parents were created for.

(August 19, 1902 " May 19, 1971 / New York / United States)

Born Frederick Ogden Nash on August 19, 1902 in Rye, New York.   An ancestor, General Francis Nash, gave his name to Nashville, Tennesee.    Raised in Rye, New York and Savannah, Georgia. Educated at St. George's School in Rhode Island and, briefly, Harvard University.   Started work writing advertising copy for Doubleday, Page Publishing, New York, in 1925.   

Published first book for children,  "The Cricket of Caradon"  in 1925.    First published poem "Spring Comes to Murray Hill" appears in New Yorker magazine in 1930.

Published 19 books of poetry.

Collaborated, in 1943, in the musical comedy, One Touch of Venus.    Elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1950.   Lived in New York but his principal home was in Baltimore, Maryland, where he died on May 19, 1971. He was buried in North Hampton, New Hampshire.

(Sourceof biography:  www.poemhunter.com & wikipedia)

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I am sharing this very  short poems by Ogden Nash to show to new writers of poetry that one just needs to express himself in his own style and not be fenced by form or verbose filigree in order to create poetry readily understood by a majority of readers.

Reviews

[Michael G.]

Well said.

[cynthiabuhainbaello]

Thank you Michael.