Putting Pen To Paper

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• Yipppie !! Success !!! Thank you David for all your help.... I played with this in a copy of Photoshop and took your advice on picking "Large"... seems to have done the trick...but now I'm gonna have to buy Photoshop... oh well..
  
  If anyone would like to take a stab at putting titles on either of the posts I did... pls feel free...
  
  keep lovin,
  mt

  By  joe, at 8/24/2006 10:27:00 AM  

• Michael, what a neat poem. I like your work, although I'll never understand the word placement/arrangement in poems like this. I look at something like this and I say "Why?" or "What's the point?" in the arrangement of words/lines. I'm trying, but I guess I'm just too closed minded to accept the unusual in today's poetry.
  
  That being said, how about the title
  "Caught in the Moment"?

  By  Ruth, at 8/24/2006 11:01:00 AM  

• Ruth... in regard to the line/spacing and punctuation... what I try to accomplish is to assist the reader in cadence more than anything... I try to make the lines and spaces and punctuation force the reader to pause or speed up or stop where things pause or speed up or stop in my mind when I read the poem in my mind....I do this to try and deliver what is in my mind in regard to what is written.... I guess the best example I can think of off the top of my head is e.e. cummings... he had a lot to do with introducing these ideas versus the traditional rhyme and rhthym of older poetry...hope that helps ..... mt

  By  joe, at 8/24/2006 12:10:00 PM  

• Thanks Michael for the explanation. Strange you should mention e.e. cummings since he was the topic of a poetry workshop I went to in July. Check out the Workshop post here to see the exercise we did that day. I've often divide my rhyming poetry lines in the way you describe.
  
  I haven't felt much inspiration to write lately, but maybe I'll post an old one soon just to keep my hand in the blog.

  By  Ruth, at 8/25/2006 06:48:00 AM  

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