FCS wrote:
> On May 14, 5:46 pm, Blue Sow <janet.r...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> I meant to ask your views on (writing) poetry but I disremembered
(until now).
>>
>> --
>> Blue Sow
>
> I enjoy it but don't apply myself to it anywhere near
> enough. I tend to get a bit bogged down in making
> it rhyme and trying to use consistent metred scansion
> rather than just letting it "flow".
>
> I've really never mastered blank verse to my satisfaction.
>
> In fact it is actually rather longer since I bothered than I
> like to remember.
>
> Your good self?
>
I have been known to write such things.
Only once have I had the experience of waking up with a complete rhyming
poem in
my head (which comprised twelve four-line verses). I wrote it down
immediately.
Sadly, it lacked the merit of 'Xanadu' and ultimately found its way into
file
thirteen. It was an interesting experience however.
I have written an amount of free verse, which does allow one to let it
flow to
some extent (to use your phrase), as well as a little blank verse. I find
the
discipline of the sonnet a pleasant challenge although I have only written
in
the Shakespearean format. I hope to attempt something Petrarchan perhaps
by the
turn of the year when I may have some time available.
I have also dabbled a little in Haiku (in English of course). The format
does
concentrate the thoughts somewhat given the need to pack a lot of meaning
into
so small a space.
I have, rather unforgivably, recently mislaid a reference regarding a poet
who
pointed out that all poets have to write bad poetry in order to get to
good
poetry. Certainly my early attempts at some forms were very poor, and
occasionally still are. On the plus side of course, I am not a poet (-:
--
Blue Sow
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