Will Dockery's Musical Prose

Designori (escapeforsix@btinternet.com) wrote:

That's very pleasant and readable stuff, Will! I find your poetry extremely
"visual". I used to worry about rhyme-schemes for years until I eventually
cast them aside. You have nicely balanced sentences and who's to say where
prose ends and poetry begins anyway? It's for the reader to decide that.
Trouble for me was growing up with "The Golden Treasury" (Francis Turner
Palgrave)
under my pillow. Thinking that emulating was creating. That last piece I
posted ("Obsidian") was the last time I bothered with a rhyme scheme. At
times I didn't know if I was recalling works I'd read years ago or creating
my own; now I write more freely and laugh at the sort of people who count
syllables.
Scansion schmansion!

Dig it!

Des.

Google ate my first reply, so again: thanks, belatedly, Des... are you still
out there?
Dockery