Sometimes I get these ideas in my head and I can’t shake them. Tonight I was going to write a variation on a haiku that incorporates the form into a string of thematic verses to make a longer unified poem, but I also wasn’t terribly interested in writing a bunch of haikus that would be mediocre at best, just to finish something. (It could still happen, but not tonight).
So, I decided to futz around with the pantoum form to address my internal desire to avoid writing haiku style poems tonight. This is what came out of it…
No Haiku and I'm Stuck. Evening writing at a fever pitch There's always something new coming to mind a lot of things I let slip right on by but this one got my brain to twitch Always something new forms in my mind Tonight the muse desires a poem or two yep this one got my brain to twitch But now that I've begun I wonder why My fickle muse desires a poem or two the topic is "stuck" and she wants no haiku And now that I've begun I wonder why because I'm stuck and just about to cry. Evening writing at a fever pitch a lot of things I let slip right on by the topic is "stuck", she eschews haiku so I am stuck yet I shall give it a try.
I played a little bit with the meter and the rhyme, but ultimately it all came down to the repetition that I really enjoy about the Pantoum. Hope you enjoy it as well.
Cheers!
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The muse wants what she wants. Carry on, o poet.
She is a tricky mistress… alas… I shall continue to serve.