W H Auden
never went skateboardin’
but Christopher Isherwood
wished he would

Dylan Thomas
showed early promise
which foundered, of course
at the White Horse

Hart Crane
had a teeming tumultuous brain
he wrote about the Brooklyn Bridge
and drank a smidge

Theodore Roethke
will never upset me
his poetical voice
is choice

Emily Dickinson slaps!
She outstrips all the Victorian chaps!
with her wacky ballad metre
no bearded bard can beat her

Miss Marianne Moore
wrote heaps that will endure
with her sage grammatical contributions
she was Brooklyn's Presbyterian Confucius

Gertrude Stein
wrote a mystifying line
do I remember how it goes
ah yes a rose is a rose is a rose

E E Cummings
was nobody's dummy
he sonneteered of prostitutes
and the beautiful dilemma of flutes