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Inconvenient Rhyme Times

I have lost more lines than I have written for they often come unbidden with no consideration of where. Words have not the discipline to be pen and paper aware. Many rhymes evaporate in air ... Driving in my car, Often in the kitchen navigating traffic, while cooking and fixing, poems form like magic. versus take shape. I cannot release the wheel Should I drop a plate to make words stick - or let water over boil? rhymes will not congeal No, so I hesitate inside my automobile. and lose the wordy roll. Many yell for toilet paper - Enjoying the outside, I need another kind, such as beach or lake, oh, so hard to find poetic lines will overtake inside of my shower my joyous reverie. when rhymes cross my mind. I can only forsake Bathroom poetry hour the rhyme gifting me ~ defies my writing power. let it be, set it free. Visiting with friends, Drifting off to sleep, verses form in my head laying in my bed, or metaphors descend. stanzas fill my head. It would be impolite I know they will escape to grab a pad, pen and write. and remain unsaid. I can't say, "hold your game peg My memory will not cooperate, while I catch a poem thread." the lies will disintegrate. Words are the love of my life yet they surely mess with me, cause me frustration and strife. Is it fated error for imagery to waste or simply every writer's terror for lines to arrive impossible for them to paste?

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Date: 6/2/2020 12:55:00 PM
My friend this is truly very creative and wonderful poetry. I too have written for contests and then forgot to enter the poems. I know this would have won if you had entered it. Got to fav it.. God bless..
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Date: 5/29/2020 3:18:00 AM
Hi, CayCay... How are you? Wow, your penning here, will become one of my favs now! Your finesse here, with wordplay, is phenomenal. I'm so glad I looked to my right of a page I was on earlier and saw this in the banner. Great style, pitching, has a lot of character too, adding. Wow, thank you very much for such an inquisitive rhyme to read. Made my day, it sure did. Blessings' in all that you do. Take care... Best of Wishes, William
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Date: 5/29/2020 3:17:00 AM
Hi, CayCay... How are you? Wow, your penning here, will become one of my favs now! Your finesse here, with wordplay, is phenomenal. I'm so glad I looked to my right of a page I was on earlier and saw this in the banner. Great style, pitching, has a lot of character too, adding. Wow, thank you very much for such an inquisitive rhyme to read. Made my day, it sure did. Blessings' in all that you do. Take care... Best of Wishes, William
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Date: 5/26/2020 10:28:00 AM
This is great writing Cay Cay and I can wholeheartedly say it happens to me as well, usually when I'm trying to sleep I have to get up and write it down or it is lost forever. You mentioned this was for my contest, I didn't see it are you sure it entered? It would have placed for sure!
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Date: 5/27/2020 10:15:00 PM
Yes, I thought I had entered your contest with this poem, John. I goofed, got distracted and some such thing - my bad. Good to know you like it and that you would have placed it if only I had correctly clicked to enter! Silly me. All the best, John - CayCay
Date: 5/17/2020 2:02:00 AM
I know just what you are talking about my dear friend, thoughts and words come to us at the most inappropriate times and hard to record, no paper, no pen! But this poem in itself is glorious -love it as you have captured every poet's experience. Love you CayCay, think of you, but swamped with everyday chores. and now with covid, not allowed to have my lady who helps in the house so, do all the housework as well have been a spoilt brat up to 3 months ago. In my mind constantly -xoxoxoxo Jenn.
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Date: 5/14/2020 9:24:00 PM
I'm with Connie, a triple wow!!! And a FAVE too. Big congrats, it was so well deserved. Did you mean for it to be able to be read all the way across as well? I found I could actually kind of do that!!
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Date: 5/14/2020 1:56:00 AM
Wow, Wow, Wow CayCay! This top winner is outstanding! Kudos and Congrats on your First Placement! xxoo
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Date: 5/11/2020 5:20:00 PM
p.s. I'll have to try this formatting some time!
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Date: 5/11/2020 5:19:00 PM
I love this one so much, CayCay. I read it over and over, and now I'm putting it my faves to re-read later. This is a frustration that plagues so many of us, I can so relate! Especially when trying to fall asleep... alas. Congratulations on your win today - so happy I saw this. Hugs ~ John
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Date: 5/7/2020 4:38:00 PM
It truly is it unfortunate ... being on the cusp of a great idea, but (failing to flesh it out in time) disintegrates into nothing and slips away as if it never was. Such is life though ... you win some, lose some. Great musings here. PS: I wasn't even aware it was possible to format poems like you did, on this site!
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Date: 5/6/2020 10:50:00 AM
I too, lose so much as I lay in bed at night, waiting for slip, the words dance and foolish I think, I'll remember in the AM, and I do, but without the flow they onced exude. Well well done. Thanks for voicing my mind.
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Date: 5/5/2020 11:45:00 PM
How true this is, I thought this was only how I felt because nothing stays in my brain for more than a nanosecond and put this down to my age (82) I was delighted to read that age may not be the cause. It made me think also what if any of our poetry will be read somewhere in the future and be quoted by others. we would not have had the pleasure of knowing about this. ( lost to us ) I reall enjoyed reading your poem Thank uou...Take care
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Date: 5/5/2020 11:01:00 PM
A great poem, CayCay. So full of truth, too. Poetic ideas do seem to come at odd moments sometimes. Memo pads are great for jotting down the ideas for future poems, but that is often not possible. Sometimes you do wonder, what poetry has been lost to inconvenience, but I guess you just can't go there. :0
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Date: 5/5/2020 2:56:00 PM
Well said! I always carry pen and paper with me as a consequence of losing so much inspiration, but still find the best compositions seems to disappear before i can write them down! Aloha! Rico
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Date: 5/5/2020 1:52:00 AM
Sometimes it seems this way, doesn't it?! Great write, CayCay!!… The best poems are the ones never written! -- Yikes.... Like Beethoven's Unfinished Symphony, I guess! :) gw
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