Today’s poem. <\/p>\n
Writing poetry, one hundred forty
\nsyllables, ten or so beats to a line.
\nFourteen lines. eight and four or twelve and two
\nthe turning in the middle, there somewhere.
\nYou can talk blue sky as long as you want,
\nthe rivers can ramble, the heart can break,
\nthe great gods may confound your epic quest.
\nAll that is fine. It flows onto the screen
\nOr onto the paper from your fav pen.
\nLines of iambic pentameter, free!
\nPouring down your arm to your fingertips!
\nThe sky, your heart broken, the river’s rage
\nAt the end, when reader and poet leave,
\nBoth of you holding hands like a sonnet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I have an alternate ending but this one feels like the better. (As always, these are first draft or slightly edited.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You can talk blue sky as long as you want, \u2022
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