Poems and the Blog

When I first started writing this blog, I found I was writing (slightly) fewer poems. Not amazing. Some ideas feed the blog, others feed poems, and I’m still not confident or clear about the difference between them. But once I’ve written a blog post about something, there’s usually less urgency about tackling it in a poem.

This is in connection with A Secular Retreat, which is my way of coping with the three months of self-isolation to which the over-seventies are currently condemned. I’ve set myself to write a sonnet a day throughout that time, and simply as a discipline for keeping the mind busy, it’s brilliant. (The extra pressure, of posting them for other people to look at, a day at a time, is self-inflicted and - in terms of the intrinsic value of doing it - unnecessary).

But this is also by way of explanation that these blog entries may become less frequent, simply because elsewhere on this site I’m already making a daily entry, under SONNETS, which in turn comes under POEMS on the home page. So if you think there’s not much action here, it may be that’s around the corner. Enjoy.