Recaptured

[dukealien]

Recaptured


Words escape me
more of them each day:
I run to capture
“oxalic acid” on a bridge of rhubarb
but there’s no path
through “equivocate” and “ambivalent”
to

to


“ambiguous.”  Gotcha!
But I had to throw
a whole online thesaurus
at you this time.

Oddly enough, I can now remember those two... but only by remembering the poem.

Sometimes the gods just hand you the words and other times you have beat it out of them. I find that I will employ an online thesaurus and the like more when trying to adhere to form. Free verse tends to rely more from those little gifts from the gods. Spontaneity is underrated in poetry. All the skill in the world will not fix a contrived meter or forced rhyme.

When writing *good* poetry in forms, the words almost seem to come first and it's a miserable task trying to find different ones in response to critiques.  In free verse, it's suspiciously easy.  And misleadingly.

But my stock of ready words does dwindle.  If only it was just the wrong 'uns that went missing!