Here’s to trying to write like Shakespeare! Take a draft of cognac, and proceed with caution. (By the way, I think it’s very useful to write in rigid metrical rhythms. Free verse is so undisciplined that most of the time it’s junk. Compare writing to training for a marathon, or practicing for a piano concerto…
Tag: exercise
We have made a tree today
{This was written during my Donne phase (that I will never fully be able to leave behind).} We have made a tree today Planted in the sky, that when we die, soiled Death might fly, and rot might humbly float away. Tangles dangle in the clouds, tubey roots kept smooth and white. No black soil…