Why God Why

[strange_selkie]

I've written a poem, which is all well and good, but the bloody thing, it rhymes!

Jesus.

This is my penance for trying, this morning in the Metro, for a rondeau.

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[sovay]

I've written a poem, which is all well and good, but the bloody thing, it rhymes!

It's good, too, okay?

(New icon?)

[strange_selkie]

Very old icon pressed into selkish service. The print is amazing and about as big as my hand and shows both the edge of the pelt and her legs diverging, and all the rich russets you can't nail down at 100x100 pixels. I lament my hair is no longer near that color.

I am allowed to ride in the castle between half past nine and eleven in the morning kvetch upon my poetry, because I have not given my life to poetry as you did. Hmf.

Re: sorry for intruding

[strange_selkie]

Oh, no intrusion! I just don't write much poetry at all, and rhyming was not what I was trying for. I would like to write effortless, unaffected free verse, but it seems I can't. :)

Re: sorry for intruding

[strange_selkie]

Does Pushkin rhyme, in Russian? Sometimes he does and sometimes he doesn't, here; it is the peril of translation.