Couch 186: Pink Lemonade

I used to be a writer
With new verses of rhyme
But since I started therapy
I just don't have the time

I'm thinking of my sessions
It bites me in the arse
But I don't want to change a thing
Oh what an awful farce.

I'm filled with doubts and fantasies
For which I cannot vouch
Maybe I'll just snuggle down
And rest here on the couch.

I know this ain't a sonnet
I've lost desire for form
I like a silly verse like this
It makes my insides warm.

Bravo!! Bravo!! I love it!

sorry I'll put my ink blotter and quill away forthwith

I just realised I rhymed time with...erm...time. oh well it is ten to midnight. ETA - fixed it

I've written a lot (a lot!) of poems over the years. One of my favorites was a glosa. I've only ever written one of that form, though.

I’m not really into poetry. I like Stephen Crane, some of Thom Gunn, and some of Lewis Carroll.

I just came back from a 1-mile walk around my neighborhood. Imagine my absolute surprise when I went outside (as I had not done yet today) and discovered, after our freezing temperatures of the rest of the week, it was a gorgeous 65 degrees F! Whoa!! That made my entire day.

Never had heard of a glosa poem before. Had to google it. It's amazing what you can learn on the couch! Kit

I've written loads too. They're all out there on the internet somewhere. I used to write a couple every day but I just don't have the motivation for it that I used to. I enjoy a bit of form but it does take a bit more work. I love a villenelle but I rarely attempt them because Dylan Thomas's Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night is so unreachable. I almost feel like the form should be retired it's so good.

I know! I always learn something new on here.

For my glosa I used 4 lines of Robert Frost's "Desert Places" for the cabeza.

What I love about using established forms of poetry is how poems can be so very, very different but yet the same form. I don't know if I said that right.

My haiku


That 👍 good?

It was in the 60s today here too and I love it! Looking at the forcast it's going to be mid 50s and high 40s the next week.

i feel the same way!! every time i have tried to write one i just can't and it's because of that one!

Yeah and a good form poem isn't compromised or restricted by the form, it thrives in it. That's why to me Thomas's villenelle is the best- it doesn't feel like he's repeating those lines because he has to in order to meet the requirements of the form, he repeats them for their sheer beauty and the depth of the imagery the conjure.

Exactly.

Now I want to try a glosa poem but it would seriously take some time. Although, what else do I have to do all day at work? Kit

A haiku for/from the depressed:

Hugs NP.

I think that should be "were", not "was". Actually, this particular sentence explicates why the subjunctive is the correct and better choice - the past tense doesnt make any sense, ya know?

The poet writes what the poet feels, there is no right or wrong.

It would be good if the struggles left forever!

I think part of what bothered me about t is I wrote something we read together. It said I dont keep myself safe for me but for others and she asked if I meant I didnt want to talk about things around her which is not what I meant at all.

I have a heart of a writer but a very fragile ego I guess.

Tomorrow is the day..

Jersey I'm so sorry.