'I Can Decide To Rhyme (or not)
A poetry spot where it's all about the joy
Hello!
Thank you for exploring this brand new space within the Anatomy of a Decision newsletter!
I am finding such joy in poetry that I wanted to create a little online home where my poems could live, and where I’d love to invite my readers to explore their poetic selves too.
My intention is to share a newsletter containing one or two poems along with a writing prompt here every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. It’s all free, but to avoid overwhelming your inboxes, readers of Anatomy of a Decision will need to specifically opt in to receive the poetry posts directly by email. Of course, you’re very welcome to wander over and enjoy the space without opting in too, all are welcome.
It has been an incredibly welcome surprise to discover that I love poetry in my forties. I’m finding that opening myself to possibility takes me to corners of my mind where creativity hides, and that I didn’t know were there. It is such fun to see what is revealed when pen meets page. I find it amazing to see how differently we all interpret the same writing prompt so I’m excited to see what you come up with. Please feel welcome to share your responses to the prompts in the comments, or do tag me if you share them in your own newsletters/notes/elsewhere, I’d love to read them!
Louise xx
Will you decide to rhyme, or not? - The prompt
Choose three numbers from 1 - 20
Those numbers represent a line in my poem ‘I can decide to rhyme’, above: choose one word from each of those lines
You now have three words. Can you use these as inspiration for your own poem? You can choose to include the exact word, or a related one, or none at all, the purpose is just to see where your mind goes
Let me know how it goes!
For convenience, here is the poem with numbered lines:
1. I can decide to rhyme, or not
2. and this is still a poem.
3. My particular choice of word
4. being more… consequential
5. however essential the meter
6. and line might be in defin-
7. ing the form I choose
8. to use, this time.
9. This poem, my heartbeat:
10.it races, it paces the floor
11.like a mother to be and her mother
12.before, in the spaces
13.it anticipates
14.all the promise
15.and hopes and dreams
16.of this new creation, of where
17.it might take us. A future
18.awaits us. So let us
19.decide
20.to go.