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* Poets can do this too, and have been doing this long before typecasting was patented. Remember [[Edgar Allan Poe]]? The guy who wrote dark poems like "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee"? He also once wrote [http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-valentine/ A Valentine].
* And then there's ee cummings, who usually wrote poems with a gentle tone, writing something like [http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/eecummings/11887 this].
* So you think [[Shel Silverstein]] is a children's poet, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWwFk64SLDw Do You]? Before he wrote and illustrated children's poetry, he was a cartoonist for ''[[Playboy]]'', and wrote songs like "The Cover of the Rolling Stone", "A Boy Named Sue" and "I Got Stoned and I Missed It". I dare you to sing his [https://web.archive.org/web/20150501215500/http://www.wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/16/mermaidgbs.htm "Mermaid"] to your kids.
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