Couplet
A couplet is a joy to read and write,
each duet fills a need, plants a seed.
Two by two they add into poetic verse
that makes you mad, sometimes glad.
You can’t control a couplet like a dog,
no more than leash a frog, bind a bird.
You see, couplets tell a spurt of thought,
or form quadruplets, when there’s more
than one, or septuplets just for fun, and
sometimes tell a tale of tragedy and fate.
God, I would hate to see them go and be
archaic like the buffalo and simplicity.
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.
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| an unpaired sock | 0 | 01/22/2012 |
| This Time (a kyrielle) | 0 | 01/22/2012 |
| Moment | 1 | 01/19/2012 |
| A path less painful | 1 | 01/12/2012 |
| A Comedy of Couplets | 1 | 01/12/2012 |
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| a story book | 0 | 12/30/2011 |
| wink | 0 | 12/05/2011 |
| Veteran’s Day | 0 | 11/25/2011 |
| wink | 0 | 11/18/2011 |
| emptiness | 0 | 11/07/2011 |
| Beyond the dawn | 1 | 10/08/2011 |
| in a moment | 0 | 10/08/2011 |
| faith | 0 | 08/13/2011 |
| Shiloh | 0 | 08/13/2011 |
| Potential | 0 | 08/12/2011 |
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| Confusion | 0 | 07/29/2011 |
| I’d Rather | 0 | 08/20/2010 |
| Dawn or Dusk? | 1 | 08/10/2010 |
| In you | 0 | 06/26/2010 |
| alone in a garden | 0 | 12/03/2009 |
| I have loved | 1 | 11/29/2009 |
| If we would see... | 0 | 11/29/2009 |
| Hunter's Moon | 0 | 11/29/2009 |
| De la Mancha | 0 | 08/29/2009 |
| Anadromous Politickles | 0 | 08/24/2009 |
| Red Sonja (Rondel) | 0 | 08/14/2009 |
| Without tomorrow | 0 | 08/07/2009 |
| If we would see... | 1 | 08/06/2009 |
| Ape House | 1 | 07/30/2009 |
| Remember Me | 1 | 07/30/2009 |
| a story book | 1 | 07/28/2009 |
| A promised verse | 2 | 07/23/2009 |
| gratitude | 0 | 07/16/2009 |
| Gallows Tree | 0 | 07/13/2009 |
| emptiness | 0 | 07/09/2009 |
| A path less painful | 1 | 07/04/2009 |
| Couplet | 0 | 07/04/2009 |
| Does it care? | 0 | 07/02/2009 |
| faith | 0 | 07/01/2009 |
| Dreamer | 1 | 06/30/2009 |
| At Dawn | 0 | 06/21/2009 |
| It speaks… | 2 | 06/17/2009 |
| Just Me | 1 | 06/13/2009 |
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