Distractions - A Poem
March 11th 2007 23:43
Yet .. Still I long for you / alternate title distractions
written June 4 - 1194
Someone over in another blog "dissed" rhyming structureed verse as doggerel so
Here's some thing I wrote that rhymes !
I was doing post graduate classics studies at the time
I Study my obscure esoteric old volumes,
I sigh and turn to lighter books equally old,
Sweet ancient lyrics freed now from large dusty rooms,
The treasures hidden that library shelves can hold.
yet still I long for you
I hunt for the newest writings of philosophy,
Tire and open some fresh novel of fantasy,
Enjoying sharing some echoes of other hearts' dreamings,
A Variable feast of alien strange whisperings!
yet still I long for you
You are so distant and yet warm flesh seems better
Two desires can touch and fuse together
Into One Love that with luck might last and lengthen
Since Love's flame if hallowed can the heart strengthen
but such dreams rarely come true
yet oh still I long for you!
I'm sorry to say the person for who this was written never got to read it!
Poem copyright J. Vaux 1994 2007
You can quote and copy it for personal use though!
So readers which is better rhymed structuted verse or free verse?
written June 4 - 1194
Someone over in another blog "dissed" rhyming structureed verse as doggerel so
Here's some thing I wrote that rhymes !
I was doing post graduate classics studies at the time
I Study my obscure esoteric old volumes,
I sigh and turn to lighter books equally old,
Sweet ancient lyrics freed now from large dusty rooms,
The treasures hidden that library shelves can hold.
yet still I long for you
I hunt for the newest writings of philosophy,
Tire and open some fresh novel of fantasy,
Enjoying sharing some echoes of other hearts' dreamings,
A Variable feast of alien strange whisperings!
yet still I long for you
You are so distant and yet warm flesh seems better
Two desires can touch and fuse together
Into One Love that with luck might last and lengthen
Since Love's flame if hallowed can the heart strengthen
but such dreams rarely come true
yet oh still I long for you!
I'm sorry to say the person for who this was written never got to read it!
Poem copyright J. Vaux 1994 2007
You can quote and copy it for personal use though!
So readers which is better rhymed structuted verse or free verse?
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Comment by Lily
Ars Poetica
I think it depends on individual taste, horses for courses and all that.. but for me, free verse is the way to go.. i find rhyming very hard, and feel it limits me to what i want to say...
~Lily
Comment by scholia
Comment by Lily
Ars Poetica
~Lily
Comment by scholia
I ask out of curiosity not in an attempt to start a debate!
It's just a lot of "free" verse ie the 1920 Imagists was inspired by bad translations of Chinese verse?
Like wise its almost impossible in english to capture the assonance effects in many Japanese haiku?
Comment by Lily
Ars Poetica
Scholia, i would never critisize anyone for writing in Rhyme, it takes a talent, one i don't possess, nor have the discipline it requires, though i do feel the classic Rhymers, remain unmatched in modern day poetry, in my opinion only.
For me, and i don't represent everyone i know, my style is free style, or free fall ~ as truly, it's the only medium that allows me to walk the wide open spaces, or run skip stroll, or whatever pace my mood, my muse sets, and i can claim every word.
~Lily