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_refugee_  ·  3465 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Two Fish Poems With No Fish

Thank you.

I was rereading really, really old poems of mine and I used to write a shit ton of sonnets and villanelles. It's funny because by the time I had to write villanelles for creative writing classes I had decided I hated them. I kind of want to experiment with going back to form for a while, except - oh, I also don't, haha.

I am pretty sure "III" was one of 2 or 3 poems in a set that were my first ever accepted for publication. To be honest, although it has its flaws, I am still pretty proud of it. If I am fair I think it sounds better read out loud than just laid out on the page - and if I am super honest I mean "when I read it out loud," specifically. I read it to a poetry group the fish-man and I were both part of once, someone told me after that if he (fish) wasn't interested after a poem like that, not only was he stupid, but they (the speaker) would gladly try and entertain me instead!