Sunday, May 08, 2005

Ghazals are hard

OK. Any advice is welcome... my first bed rest writing assignment began innocently enough--the great Papatya told me to write a poem in which each line ends with the phrase "in bed," like the fortune cookie game. I made it harder by deciding that I would use that and try a ghazal, but it's proving much more difficult than I ever thought. I will keep coming back to it, though, while I attempt other writing assignments (thanks, Ruth!).

3 Comments:

Charles said...

That is a beautiful idea! I love it. Maybe you could use fortune cookie messages and put (in bed) at the end of them in the second line or something.

8:00 PM  
A. P. Bucak said...

I like how that makes me sound like a magician...like the great Houdini...perhaps I shall publish only under the great Papatya. Actually I'm trying to write an essay about my name--hello, narcissism--and this just might make it in. I'm also trying to write a novel, so the essay may fritter away silently...hope all is well...in bed.

4:48 AM  
Oliver de la Paz said...

I second your title, Sue. Ghazals are hard. Good luck . . . in bed.

8:38 AM  

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