Meter

[abu nuwas]

I think the best I have done of meter, and even some when I kind of half-broke with meter, were done when I had got so immersed in some form that it would run through my head even asleep, and I would wake with the finished thing. I must try again -it's just a question of habit.


Hmmm.........

I can relate to that. It drives me mad...the thinking in poetry rhythm thing late into the night, when i want to sleep. Also it happens when I'm working, fortunatly we run our own business so I can just down tools for a mo. If i' don't then often it is gone again and that is even more frustrating. I've taken to having a pen and paper by the bed because my brain won't quit till I've got it down somewhere.

There must be many pens and notebooks all over the world, lying on bed-side tables, and raising all sorts of suspicions in spouses...

What is currently driving me mad, is my nosiness about your riches-to-rags story, and the six court cases, and advice you were given. But please on no account feed it; I shall just get worse!

I think sometimes just recording a fragment is good -- then all one needs to do is to avoid putting it in the wrong poem.