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louderwords  ·  4103 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Clean palate

I do most of them as I'm writing them as a way to capture how they're coming out of my mind. I usually try to keep lines between 1 - 5 (definitely less than 10) words as a general rule; which I think oddly enough stems from the fact that I like the skinny, vertical-look like this was sent through a small online chat message box.

I usually start a line with a conjunction if it's part of a sentence, as you can see with the "and"

I try to break in a way that emphasizes certain sounds.

cleanse the palate

of my soul with

some sorbet

I like how the s's are close and form a slinking, s-like shape if you were to connect them all.

taste what’s next

without the persuasive

traces of the past.

With this, I like visualizing how Taste slant rhymes with trace, they both slant-rhyme with the suas in persuasive, and the alliteration of persuasive and past. I try to do a lot of internal rhyming/similar sounds and shaping the poem in a way that makes it work in more directions than just left-to-right.