Thursday, February 5, 2009

If I ever saw option one at a party...

I had the hardest time writing poem #2. Can we talk about that? First of all, I was completely fearful of the first option, so I ran away from it. Head my head under a rock, something like that. If I were to see that option across the room from me at some party I would turn away and drink myself into a waking stupor. The second option, however, interested me in that I like poems with interesting lyrical qualities. I decided that, instead of focusing on the rhyme of it, or the beats, I wanted to weave in three words from the title throughout the whole poem. The desired effect should, hopefully, not annoy the crap out of you, but what can you do? I am new at this and do not profess myself to be anything more then a complete amateur. For me, using the same words over and over again made the poem seem circular, like it was always throwing back to the beginning, always seeming to taunt me with new revelations of things hidden within the next few lines. I don’t know. I liked the style, maybe not my poem, but I definitely enjoyed writing something down.

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