When instead of welcoming open debate certain dogmas demand that any such threat be outright banned or firmly deterred from taking place and when censorship of any expression that calls into question said dogmas' tenets is a free-speech-and-thought-throttling given — as if squelching dissent were essential to protect the cred of the system — you may safely bet the proverbial bundle that under even the meekest mildest scrutiny the tenets in question will rapidly crumble.
I'm not sure how I'm doing it myself, but I've been doing it for decades ... something about practice makes perfect I suppose.
It usually starts with a line (sometimes only a phrase); that's it! There is never any preconceived length, metre or rhyming scheme. It might take four lines; it might take a hundred. I never know what it will take to say what I have say.
Trial and error. Endless revisions. Whatever sounds right. All in-the-flow organic evolution, growth. It's all very mysterious. At some point I arrive at a place where I think the poem is acceptable ... although I always reserve the right to make it better, should the need arise.
i write lyrics like that - though i know what i’m doing using an internal rhyme or one across lines or reversing a rhyming scheme or not using one at all, it flows naturally - and i always have definite guidelines to fit the meter in, because lyrics are never written without the music, or they hardly ever match.
neither do i, but i like sitting inside the vehicle of melody and rhythm too - luckily, there are a near-infinite number of combinations of those and words too :-)
The house of cards must not be allowed to fall!!
Truth!
Well-penned
Thanks!
i LOVE your mix 'n' match rhyming schemes that ALWAYS feel resolved but i don't really know how you're doing it until i examine closely. superb! :-)
Glad you like it!
I'm not sure how I'm doing it myself, but I've been doing it for decades ... something about practice makes perfect I suppose.
It usually starts with a line (sometimes only a phrase); that's it! There is never any preconceived length, metre or rhyming scheme. It might take four lines; it might take a hundred. I never know what it will take to say what I have say.
Trial and error. Endless revisions. Whatever sounds right. All in-the-flow organic evolution, growth. It's all very mysterious. At some point I arrive at a place where I think the poem is acceptable ... although I always reserve the right to make it better, should the need arise.
i write lyrics like that - though i know what i’m doing using an internal rhyme or one across lines or reversing a rhyming scheme or not using one at all, it flows naturally - and i always have definite guidelines to fit the meter in, because lyrics are never written without the music, or they hardly ever match.
peace :-)
Right! Lyrics have to fit the music (or, less commonly, vice-versa). I have no such restrictions.
neither do i, but i like sitting inside the vehicle of melody and rhythm too - luckily, there are a near-infinite number of combinations of those and words too :-)
"You can't say that!"
And yet we do ... as is our wont.