<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=451431" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poetry, Mathematics and Distress...! ! ! !</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poetry turns into jugglery, <br>As I struggle with counting syllables<br>To meet the demands of structure-<br>Haiku, iambic pentameter, <br>Stress, unstressed; <br>Leaves me in distress…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Free or blank, <br>Verse or worse, <br>Is it art<br>Is it craft? <br>Lament the classicists<br>Follow rules, they persist…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A pen, a piece of paper<br>And some floating thoughts<br>In the stream of consciousness, <br>Are basic tools, but to add spunk<br>Rules are a must, <br>Add effectiveness…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, but I insist<br>I write from the heart: <br>For relaxation, self expression<br>Meditation, catharsis<br>To enjoy, feel buoyed<br>Not to annoy…<br>Am an amateur, no artist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All that effort at compression, <br>Shows- makes no impression...<br>I find it difficult to comform<br>Honestly, I suffer from<br>A mental block <br>At a poetry workshop.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Loved mathematics, <br>but not off late, <br>after the stock market<br>crashed....<br>But not one to admit defeat, <br>thought let me use my <br>numerical skills<br>to enhance my creativity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas, have forgotten to count<br>and at the same time recount...<br>A classic is not in my fate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So I rebelled, <br>please refund my fee<br>and let me be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mamta+Agarwal">Mamta Agarwal</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=451431" data-title="Poetry, Mathematics and Distress...! ! ! ! de Mamta Agarwal" data-description="Poetry turns into jugglery, As I struggle with counting syllables To meet the demands of structure- Haiku, iambic pentameter, Stress, unstressed; Leaves me in distress… Free or blank, Verse or worse, Is it art Is it craft? Lament the clas..."></div> </div> </div>

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