To Write or Not To Write

A long time ago, I wrote a three or four part satire about my boss, anonymously, of course.  It was fun, but I got busy and ran out of inspiration. I think.  Fast-forward about twenty years, and several years ago (seven, in fact) I started out writing a blog of sorts.  At least, what I thought a blog was.  I shared my thoughts, sometimes my opinion, and sometimes neither.  It was fun, but the fact is that lately, I don’t seem to add as much to this junk pile very often. 

Am I out of things to say?  I don’t know, but I have changed my focus some.  I decided I could say more in less time with poetry.  I’ve explored it, written a few pieces and even kept the more heartfelt stuff to myself.  What do I write?  These days it’s mostly poetry, and I’ve narrowed it to light verse.  When I look for examples of that I read Dorothy Parker, Ogden Nash, Phyllis McGinley, Billy Collins, even Garrison Keillor.  I couldn’t begin to catch up with any of them, but I have found a book on how to write poetry and one on how to write a limerick, so watch out!

 

Back to not writing as much anymore, I may be short of the energy, vitality, strength, and imagination to do it very much.  Or, I may just need some stimulation.  I plan to join a group (a writers’ club) soon that will probably let me know.  One small problem to ponder—these are all old geezers and geezettes, too, so who’s going to keep whom awake?

With that said, I have fun rhyming, and I’m learning some about meter, from Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter to whatever metric (or is it meteoric?) you find in a limerick.  There’s even a handy little guide to writing limericks that I’ve found.  I haven’t put any on paper (and, no, they don’t all involve Nantucket).   I do think a limerick worth writing down is coming (Notice I didn’t say worth hearing!).  I just can’t say when.

P. S., the group doesn’t meet during the peak of summer, so it will be weeks before I can share my experience.  In the mean time, we have our 39^th consecutive day with a temperature exceeding ninety degrees coming tomorrow (tied for fourth all time) .  I apologize Barack and all you nut jobs that have been telling me about global warming, I still think it is the height of hubris to think our day-to-day action as humans is causing the whole planet to warm up.  What were those nasty dinosaurs doing that precipitated the Ice Age?  Don’t try selling me that meteor stuff either, there is a reason why we call those goofs on TV meteorologists!  They blame all their miscalculations on those “meteors”, too.