Comments | lady_of_mists: Poetry? Me? :headdesk:

lady_of_mists

Poetry? Me? :headdesk:

Aug 11, 2009 12:24

I had the unfortunate experience this morning/afternoon to be bitten by the Byronesque melancholy poetry bug. I completely blame the book that my husband found on the bargain rack at Borders entitled Lyrics by Sting. This is not to mention the fact that it is darker today and probably about to storm again like it did last night for about twenty ( Read more... )

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retsuko August 12 2009, 00:04:13 UTC

FWIW, I'm not a poet, either, but I never let that stop me. ;)

lady_of_mists August 12 2009, 18:38:05 UTC

Oh, it didn't stop me... so there is now a weird angsty poem thingy lurking in my writing notebook just before the Prologue to Knights Errant.

It reminded me of a poem that Anatoliy would write... and I can pretend that it would be much better written in Russian and that the translation was off. ;)

(I think part of it is that it needed to be longer, but I was already embarrassed enough that I was writing bad poetry... )