One of the best aspects of having poets for friends is being exposed to many different forms of the genre. List poems especially intrigue me. The poet itemizes something in a cohesive fashion, and the ending is significant.The structure of the words fairly sings. Originally what was going to follow was a list of random thoughts on July, but it wasn’t gonna be in tune.
As an aside, I went to one of those Facebook sites called “I Write Like” that checks what famous writer a person writes like by analyzing word choice and writing style and comparing them to those of famous writers. You paste in a sample of your writing so I ‘pasted’ in the first few paragraphs of my last blog post.
My analysis?
Bram Stoker. Yep, Dracula’s ‘daddy.’ Nuff said. Course my dh points out it’s my old-fashioned style. Tried another piece and got the bard…yes, that BARD…jolly olde England with the emphasis on OLDE.
Pretty much sums up July.
And I did have a pithy (okay, really pathetic) attempt at a list poem that started like this:
July
Fireworks flying forth, parachutes a dud
Friends gathered, food fine….
But I got sidetracked, which is just as well.
Think I’ll stick to prose and leave the poetry to the experts: the poets.
p.s. I just pasted in the first two graphs of this piece for analysis: H.P. Lovecraft.
The End
How funny. I love poetry but simply cannot write it. I can write silly stuff and that's what I usually end up with even when I try to be serious.
ReplyDeleteAnything to do with words is writing. I like to think my blog contributes to my writing although it is not putting any words on my novel.
Off here to edit a few pages of said novel.
I write like gave me Dan Brown on a blog, Stephen King on an essay, and Bram Stoker on a poem.
ReplyDeleteGo figure.
Also, if you like west virginia/coal-country poetry
I highly recommend Kettle Bottom by Diane Gilliam Fisher. It's good stuff.
Barb, good luck with editing...8-)
ReplyDeleteGo figure indeed....8-)
Thanks for the recommendation...!