I never will understand iambic pentameter. I can hear it, but I can't write it too well.

Giving up control. That one is hard...

How long does it take you to write? Poems can sometimes take me hours. I love writing descriptive stuff and bringing scenes to life.

Thanks for sharing. :-)

Well, it's always been too difficult for me to get a consistent rhythm, on top of rhyme and syllable count. So generally I don't do it (or fail at it), as seen above. Or I drop one or more of the others; most of the poems I've written that I consider successful have been fairly prose-like.

This one came out quickly, maybe 15 minutes from the first idea (the first stanza came to me essentially as is; I worked (and possibly overworked) to get the rest into the same form.) It was more that something came to me that wanted to be a poem, than that I set out to write a poem and this came.

I find poetry so much more awkward when I have an intent, that I usually stick to prose when I have something to describe or a story in mind to tell.

The odd thing is that the thought of letting go wanted to be expressed in a constrained form.

but this isn't iambic pentameter...

I really don't understand it. A friend of mine tried so hard to explain it to me, but I just can't grasp it. I still enjoy writing poetry.

Heck, it isn't even iambic. {Which is what the cheap pens say, "I am Bic."}

Famous poet Day Cart: "I have beats, therefore iamb."

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