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A mediocre poem I wrote when I was having trouble writing anything.


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Writer's Block

Looking for something raw from within,
Something ugly, truthful and vivacious,
I look inside and I find blank sin,
Salt and venom, so bloody capricious

Ripped off clichés and arcs do proceed,
Directing my mind to inspiration,
But no, void does, as ever, impede,
Originality, vile temptation

What is that thing, the perfect story?
Structure or truth or what?
Elusive tart of allegory,
Oh, but for a muse, I rot...

Clarity is hewn from passionate throws,
Music, drink, substance and sword,
Blessed is the man who can write what he knows,
The master of experience is the master of word

 

It's a really simple poem - please don't insult me for sharing my soul with you! Fuck it, I know you will anyway.

 

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A mediocre poem I wrote when I was having trouble writing anything.

I see no cause for insults,  rather enjoyed reading it.

Two sidenotes though:

1. You may want to pay more attention to the cadence (dictus, metric, rhythm) than to rhyme.  Cadence is the backbone of poetry, rhyme is just an embellishment.

2. Latin-based words such as anything ending with ~ation, ~ous etc. make somewhat contrived and clunky rhyme, thus should be avoided as rhyming words.  In fact, they are better be sparingly used (if not altogether avoided) in non-latin-based-language poetry.

 

 

Clarity is hewn from passionate throws,
Music, drink, substance and sword,

^ I find those two lines brilliant  (nevermind the form, i approve the content).   You know how to overcome writer's block. 

 

 

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A mediocre poem I wrote when I was having trouble writing anything.

I wrote it as a bit of therapy when I ran out of ideas for college. Fuck all was coming out, so I thought a medium change might help.

I get the whole -ious and -tion suffix thing seeming lazy. I wrote a massive stream of conscious style poem using just that and I threw it in the bin when I read it back to myself. Apart from that, the structure is depressingly simple.

Edit: I think I went a bit OCD with the syllable count too. More like a game of tetris than a poem.

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A mediocre poem I wrote when I was having trouble writing anything.

There's no such thing as depressingly simple. Simple can be perfection all the same as complex. (As is the case with food & all other things as well.)

 

Syllables - it's not just the count but the weight they carry what puts it into motion.  Also the sounds and their resonance with one another. 

There's a very good book about the structure of poetry by Stephen Fry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ode_Less_Travelled  - i don't do poetry at all but i find it a damn good read. Basically the same principles as in algebra, music, geometry, architecture. (That for the form (sensory qualities) - the substance to fill it with you already outlined in those two lines i quoted above.) 

Mind you, english is nt my mothertongue (i haven't even officially learnt it), so you better take anything i write with a pinch of salt (coke or whatever rocks your block). 

 

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