I guess I'm just an old-fashioned girl at heart 
I grew up reading Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, and all the grand old poets, so it's hard for me to reconcile in my mind that poetry doesn't have to rhyme any more. Honestly, I've tried to write poetry freed from the shackles of rhyme, as it were, but I just can't -- I've only ever come up with one poem that I liked. (Though I have been known to compose haiku on the fly, but that's a totally different animal to me.)
I don't usually share my work with friends; in fact, only a couple of them even know that I write poetry at all. It's made more difficult by the fact that my muse seems to come and go at the most inconvenient times: I might write a dozen poems in a two-week period and then go most of a year without being able to write anything at all. Sadly, my muse doesn't take well to being "forced" to work.
Right now I'm mostly posting my older work... I'm going to keep back a few of my favorites until I see how this site works.
I grew up reading Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, and all the grand old poets, so it's hard for me to reconcile in my mind that poetry doesn't have to rhyme any more. Honestly, I've tried to write poetry freed from the shackles of rhyme, as it were, but I just can't -- I've only ever come up with one poem that I liked. (Though I have been known to compose haiku on the fly, but that's a totally different animal to me.)I don't usually share my work with friends; in fact, only a couple of them even know that I write poetry at all. It's made more difficult by the fact that my muse seems to come and go at the most inconvenient times: I might write a dozen poems in a two-week period and then go most of a year without being able to write anything at all. Sadly, my muse doesn't take well to being "forced" to work.
Right now I'm mostly posting my older work... I'm going to keep back a few of my favorites until I see how this site works.
- Member since March 8, 2009.
- My mood is , and quote is "thoughtful".
- I am a 26 year old woman (United States)
- When I'm not writing, I'm university student.
- I have 5 comments, 5 archived poems
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on With Regards to Family Parties by Alex.1, on March 8, 2009I like it -- you do a great job of conveying the distance that can grow over time between people that once were so close. Tiny technical comments: personally I'd take out the commas from "‘Till board games, all, were done" because I don't see that the line needs them. Also, in the second to last stanza, was it intentional to have "way" not rhyme with "fade?" Overall I really enjoyed the poem, though. It's a good balance of humor and a sad sort of nostalgia for times that can't be reclaimed.
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I like it... and boy do I agree that "finding out how the world really worked / came as something of a shock."
I think it's an intriguing idea: reclaiming and integrating the Mr. Hyde in yourself rather than wholesale rejecting him like the "cool clean hero" might be apt to do, and by doing so, maybe making "one good man" out of yourself.
