For the mostpart.. I agree with TiffyKitty.

I feel poetry has many confines. I often avoid poetry because of the constraints of predesignated limits on how things should be.

Such that, I tend to more towards prose.

I have ever appreciated the beauty of the written word. It shows in how I speak and how I write. I suppose it comes with reading much when I was younger - but to me, there is nothing more beautiful than well assembled words.

I remember this one offhandedly - from the Lord of the Rings:

"And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world."

(I actually am not that big of a nerd.. I had to look it up)

I really enjoy beautiful verse.. but for the last few poems in this thread, they came by serendipity. I do not know of the name of the type - should a type even exist for them. But I noticed repeating words and phrases without even trying. And then I decided that this line should rhyme with this.. to bring it well together.

My most recent as of tonight:



How the heart yearns for the moment never to be;
If only in dream,
If only in thought,
Let it be forever embossed into charished memory.

Please! If only in dreams beneath the lonely silver moon,
Let it be an ode to joy,
Let it be a sonnet of bliss,
May it be that I ever remember its tune.

Prayers whispered to the towering dark,
May it be that they go unanswered?
May it be that words fell silenced upon deaf ears?
It be that these ungrateful years forever leave a cruel mark.

I know now that my heart will never be free;
It be the cold will of the world,
It be the disheartening truth,
How the heart yearns for the moment never to be.


When I was writing it, it was like, OMFG! Like, 1:1 rhymes with 1:4. When I got to 2, I was like, "OMFG! 2:2 and 2:3 both use the same start as 1:4!" When it came to the end, I decided to tie up 4:4 with the same line as the start (1:1) for a sense of completion.

So it was just serendipity. I didn't have to try all too hard.

*cocks gun*

So you guys had better give it a shot, lest I shoot first!