I'm the only person I know who flirts in acrostics

[rliz]

DOUBLING OVER

for _reema

Unrequited-- let's begin it with a promise. This is a poem

Comments

[ex_truepenn]

I deeply, deeply admire your acrostic poems.

[rliz]

Thank you. I very much value your judgment.

[_reema]

You've changed it, I see. The... meter is somehow different?

I'm the only person I know who flirts in acrostics.

And that's why I love you, of course.

I wrote an acrostic during math class. Clearly, you are a corrupting influence.

(In other news, I seem to have killed a pin in my ethernet receptor! Crap.)

[rliz]

> You've changed it, I see. The... meter is somehow different?

Yes, I think I showed you the first draft as soon as it was done. I changed mostly the second line, I think...?

> I wrote an acrostic during math class. Clearly, you are a corrupting influence.

[stephl]

I've been wrestling with an acrostic all day, and it's giving me fits.

I blame you entirely. In that good, plague-of-my-literary-life way...

[rliz]

> I blame you entirely. In that good, plague-of-my-literary-life way...

Aww.

Actually, I was thinking about it, and, really, if you're wedded to the word "bittersweet", or "bitter sweet", I think maybe the structure inverted to

1.

S
W
E
E
T

2.

B
I
T
T
E
R

would be that much more interesting...?

Anyway, if you ever want a poem-beta, you know where I live.

[stephl]

Oh, I'll show it to you (I think) -- I'm getting something that I think I like. It's not like yours, though -- I mean, it's an acrostic (duh), but my poetry is very lean and sparse, and yours is so lush.

So when you read it, bear that in mind -- that's just my style; it IS deliberate, not lazy writing. It's odd, because my prose is so long and rambly (too much so in some cases), but my poetry is very spare, just brushstrokes, really.

[rliz]

How intriguing.

I await it eagerly.

[rliz]

Woo. Thank you.