bairnsidhe

>>Wait until you try writing Loki or Eris. Who also get into genderqueer territory.<<

Oh heck no. Those two can stay in prose, dammit. Life-mate adds Bacchus to the list of crazy deities that will make my poetry complex.

>>It sounds like you've got the basics of poetry down, and you're starting to get into theory. There isn't as much written on this topic, so a lot of it is learned by trial and error.<<

Yeah, that's about where I am right now. I like poetry, but some of the underlying things are tricky for me to pin down what's going on where.

>>If I remember right, I hit this phase around college and a few years after; I'd been writing poetry since I was six and writing it regularly since junior high.<<

Yup, fitting the pattern here too. I'm looking up more structured forms right now, because it seems like a good way to use "training wheels" for things like meter and stress-unstressed syllables.

Thanks for all the encouragement!