Partners in Rhyme Personalized Poetry - Personal Poetry - Poems for All Occasions including Anniversaries, Weddings, Birthdays, Christmas and More

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poems as Christmas gifts.
In January, they decided to make go of it, and placed an advertisement in the Press Enterprise, just in time for Valentine's Day. Most of the poems they've written so far have been for people they know. The two women sit down at the dining room table to write with a pen, notebook and a pot of coffee. One woman will come up with a line, and the other may match it with a rhyme. Once the poem is done, they type the words into a computer, using an office word processing program. They print the poem out on 8-by-10 parchment paper that comes in ivory, gray or blue. Dougherty said writing the poems can take a long time, depending on a customer's request. The more specific people get about what they want in the poem, the more difficult it is to write she pointed out. One woman wanted them to pen a funny poem about her sister. She told them they had to include an anecdote about a time the two painted the kitchen sink with peanut butter and sugar. It was difficult, but they managed to do it, Huray said. Another customer told them, "I love my wife. We have three kids. Make it mushy." That one was easier because it was less specific, Dougherty said "It really depends," she said. Sometimes it comes to you right away. It helps to be sentimental and emotional Huray said. Many people can make the rhymes but need the

emotion and feeling to make a poem work, she added. If not, Dougherty said, "You'll come up with 'Roses are red, violets are blue. "'Putting yourself in the other person's shoes helps also, Dougherty added. That helped when she wrote a poem for Sis Fox, whose daughter was leaving home. Dougherty, who has children of her own, said she thought about how she would feel when her kids reached that age. Fox got choked up reading the first poem the women wrote for her daughter, titled "The Sun, the Moon and the Stars." The poem brings up Fox's memories of her 25-year-old daughter Linda, who liked Holly Hobbie and always skinned her knees as a child. Although she knows how she feels about her daughter, the Berwick mother said she wouldn't be able to put those feelings down on. paper. All she had to do was tell Dougherty and Huray about Linda, and they came up with the rest. "What they're doing is more realistic and more sentimental (than a greeting card), Fox said. Glen Beckley, who sent a poem to his wife for Christmas said the gift was a good way for him to express his feelings. His wife Tamara said the poem. is a "beautiful sentiment" from her husband, who isn't always good with words. "He'd never be able to say something like that," she said with amusement "He's a big, macho guy."

Beckley, who lives in Berwick, also sent a poem to his godmother in Florida, saying the price is fair. "It beats sending flowers; they're dead, in three days," he said. "I'm very happy with the results." Paul Husak , Beckley's father-in law, also got a poem from him. He said the words fit the family well, as though Beckley had written the words himself. A greeting card is run-of-the-mill," he said. "This is something you probably only get once in, a lifetime."When Husak's wife Jean began to read the poem, the Berwick man said he had to take over because she got too choked up. "It was very touching," he said. Dougherty and Huray's ability to touch people with their writing is one that,runs in the family. Huray said her father wrote beautiful poems and used to make her recite one he wrote for her and her mother. When asked to recite it, Huray began but was soon overcome by tears. Dougherty told her to stop or she would start crying as well. Huray remembered a time her father recited a poem about growing up while they were in the car. She said she was only 8 years old., but was "bawling" by the time he finished. I don't think anything moves me to tears more than a poem," Huray said. "The power of the written word is so strong" her daughter agreed.

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