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[shadesong]

I'm looking through my poetry binders... all the poems I wrote from age 9 to age 20 (No, I haven't written any poetry in the last 8 years). I am having insights.

Insight 1: I may have been the most pretentious child poet ever to walk the earth.
Insight 2: I should never - ever - try to write a rhyming poem again.
Insight 3: I now see why my English teachers kept referring me to the guidance counselor. I was a pretty fucked-up kid.
Insight 4: I should probably try to start writing poetry again. It may suck, it may not suck - some of the non-rhyming ones weren't too bad - but it's a chronicle of those years. Better than a diary. More honest.

Okay. Sleep now..

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You only think Insight 1 because you've never read my juvenalia. If there is a god, no one ever will.

Insight 2 is wrong. Rhyming poetry is an art form--it only gets better if you keep working on it.

Insight 3 is probably true.

Insight 4 is definately true. :)

Randall

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Insight 1: Well, I did say *may* have been.
Insight 2: Trust me. I suck at it.
Insights 3 & 4: Indisputable!„