Poetic mish – mash
I am not poetic. I took a poetry class last spring and it was pretty easy until I actually had to write a poem. All I had to do was emulate a poem out of our anthology. I ended up with a terrible poem; but the title, and its sexually suggestive pun, illicited one of the best receptions any piece I’ve written has ever gotten. It may have been because the class consisted of mostly females. And no, I am not going to put the title here.
But I am not poetic: I have no rhythm; no sense of meter, and now that my once “above average” vocabulary is fading into that foggy void some like to call the brain, I’m like a kid with a 20 piece Lego set. All yellow pieces. And I don’t have the patience to sit and try to learn these things. I’m like Robert Downy, Jr’s Harry Lockhart in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang: I don’t finish a lot of things I start. That’s mediocrity. It sucks.
And I am not poetic, but I found a cool website where I can try to be, with a little help from the rest of the world… or at least those lucky enough to have an internet connection. And that’s the real point of this entry.
http://www.poetc.com/ is a writing inspiration website/pseudo-community which gives you the last couple of lines that other people have written which you have 60 seconds to add 10 words or less to. The idea is everyone writes a line of poetry which forms this Frankenstein-ish amalgam of words. The idea is to give writers a swift boot to get over writer’s block and whatnot, but sometimes the poems evolve quite nicely.
So… head on over there, or to the other sites and join in the fun.
:: Related Extras ::
- http://oneword.com/ – Same deal as poetc.com, but you get one word as a prompt.
- http://www.onecaption.com/ – ditto, ‘cept with a pic. You supply the caption.
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