tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post4105617150036741654..comments2024-03-25T22:25:27.515+05:30Comments on Madly-in-Verse: Write...Edit...Publish : Is love then so simple?Nilanjana Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08656370320322301943noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-40033774410960235712016-02-24T12:08:49.392+05:302016-02-24T12:08:49.392+05:30Thank you! and good luck with your sonnets!Thank you! and good luck with your sonnets!Nilanjana Bosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08656370320322301943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-23322052085239023692016-02-24T12:07:27.242+05:302016-02-24T12:07:27.242+05:30I only follow the rhyme scheme for the sonnet, the...I only follow the rhyme scheme for the sonnet, the rules on iambic pentameter scare me silly :) Many famous poets have written ghazals in English - it's a very enticing form to write to I feel. Rules are good, the rigour and discipline of writing to form poetry stretches the writing muscles. But also good to bend them a little and make them your own sometimes! Nilanjana Bosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08656370320322301943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-28441658153754804262016-02-24T09:37:11.362+05:302016-02-24T09:37:11.362+05:30WOW. A sonnet writer. I want to write one so bad. ...WOW. A sonnet writer. I want to write one so bad. I'm afraid of them. But after reading this beautiful piece I vow to try. You have grabbed me in your description. Love your excitement over writing the sonnet. Great job. Robyn Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17356555082768185840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-15363194155304717182016-02-23T23:32:20.898+05:302016-02-23T23:32:20.898+05:30I'm feeling so much from this post. Too much i...I'm feeling so much from this post. Too much information, haha, but very interesting!<br /><br />I've never managed to make a sonnet sound good. Yours I like! I'm going to have to google the rules for a ghazal because I've never heard of that and I like poetry rules. I feel like it stretches the creativity to have to write within confines. I do like yours do. Really lyrical, couldAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-41066395291102554062016-02-23T08:58:00.336+05:302016-02-23T08:58:00.336+05:30Glad you enjoyed the poetry. Thanks.Glad you enjoyed the poetry. Thanks.Nilanjana Bosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08656370320322301943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-21231250304494097932016-02-23T08:56:32.934+05:302016-02-23T08:56:32.934+05:30Most things in our current world are too commercia...Most things in our current world are too commercialised, V-Day is no exception I guess. Thanks for being here.Nilanjana Bosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08656370320322301943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-52545093943305571902016-02-22T20:40:14.129+05:302016-02-22T20:40:14.129+05:30I loved your poems Nila. It was an added delight t...I loved your poems Nila. It was an added delight to have you write your thoughts and to bring in the kama sutra. Pleased to be here.Kalpanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02503951641129389045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-21660122816702307522016-02-22T06:01:55.365+05:302016-02-22T06:01:55.365+05:30A lovely description of love in your sonnet and po...A lovely description of love in your sonnet and poem. Interesting about the cultural bit. Even here in the US some people think Valentine's is just too commercial. I agree that it is good to show love more than just on a love holiday. Deborah Druckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05649396302648104610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-20703852589469984862016-02-20T12:59:32.558+05:302016-02-20T12:59:32.558+05:30Cynicism twinned with a sense of false entitlement...Cynicism twinned with a sense of false entitlement, and a consumerist culture doesn't make for the right education on love, or anything else, for that matter. Glad you enjoyed the poetry, thanks.Nilanjana Bosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08656370320322301943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-24082089573959035832016-02-19T23:00:11.844+05:302016-02-19T23:00:11.844+05:30Loved both the poems and your explanations and ...Loved both the poems and your explanations and 'rants' were especially succinct in explaining cultural differences. Valentine Day is so commercialised now, even the young children at school are pressurised into making something of it, not helped by parents sending them cards! We are going wrong somewhere in teaching the next generation about love.Sallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14090018804016223955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-70797390805831699742016-02-19T13:49:15.803+05:302016-02-19T13:49:15.803+05:30Glad you liked the poetry...reincarnation and eter...Glad you liked the poetry...reincarnation and eternal love is the stuff of many a book, both ancient and modern...Nilanjana Bosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08656370320322301943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-8188232749944081792016-02-19T13:46:59.958+05:302016-02-19T13:46:59.958+05:30Thank you. I love the symmetry and the lyrical qua...Thank you. I love the symmetry and the lyrical qualities of the form, and also its brevity...Nilanjana Bosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08656370320322301943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-23466781597142678202016-02-19T13:45:47.124+05:302016-02-19T13:45:47.124+05:30It's poetic comfort food, true love and its re...It's poetic comfort food, true love and its reincarnations and nothing ever dying out completely or being wasted..Nilanjana Bosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08656370320322301943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-17774783304523500962016-02-19T09:33:58.958+05:302016-02-19T09:33:58.958+05:30Ahhh, your poetry speaks to my lyrical heart! Simp...Ahhh, your poetry speaks to my lyrical heart! Simply beautiful. I wrote my first novel under the influence of what you so eloquently stated, "True lovers never die, their souls meet in the garb of different bodies in various reincarnations, their need for each other also eternal and undying." SO much love for these words and the weight of their meaning.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03228035720008992890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-2150324299155087262016-02-19T01:13:39.000+05:302016-02-19T01:13:39.000+05:30Love the sonnet! Perfectly balanced, beautiful mes...Love the sonnet! Perfectly balanced, beautiful message.Scheherazadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08906467791904395295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-69977715104393454602016-02-18T21:50:19.190+05:302016-02-18T21:50:19.190+05:30Beautiful sonnet and lovely thoughts about true lo...Beautiful sonnet and lovely thoughts about true love being forever reincarnated. You're right. The sonnet is truly a perfect message form for love.cleemckenziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15456109243453726483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-7492077186481038182016-02-18T16:19:26.950+05:302016-02-18T16:19:26.950+05:30For me love is in the everyday ordinary things, mo...For me love is in the everyday ordinary things, more than grand gestures. No arguments if some people prefer the grand gestures though. <br /><br />And agree that it is beyond sad - most of us are so quick to judge and condemn anything that differs a tad from our own ways/opinions. So much energy spent on such trivial differences, uff!Nilanjana Bosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08656370320322301943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-18153334143063579612016-02-18T14:33:12.174+05:302016-02-18T14:33:12.174+05:30I loved the imagery you were able to evoke in so f...I loved the imagery you were able to evoke in so few words. Expressions of love that are simply about two lovers enjoying each other's company rather than grand declarations of affection or sweeping gestures. Ultimately, I think that's the core of any relationship.<br /><br />And of course, it's funny (by which I actually mean sad) how so many 'godly' people are against the Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06017756012813695025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-57648130462890651232016-02-18T11:38:18.481+05:302016-02-18T11:38:18.481+05:30Agree! Too much focus on outward things and not en...Agree! Too much focus on outward things and not enough everyday mindfulness. Thank you the warm words re sonnet.Nilanjana Bosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08656370320322301943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-29960689064450674752016-02-18T11:36:47.033+05:302016-02-18T11:36:47.033+05:30That is a cool dream! Even cooler if it turns out ...That is a cool dream! Even cooler if it turns out to be real..Nilanjana Bosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08656370320322301943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-56013798113054606932016-02-17T21:36:24.881+05:302016-02-17T21:36:24.881+05:30We make too much of one day instead of harboring l...We make too much of one day instead of harboring love in our hearts and sharing with those close EVERY day. Your sonnet is a classic. I am without words to adequately say how fine it is.Roland D. Yeomanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338410857990551352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-24919491782477948912016-02-17T18:23:52.763+05:302016-02-17T18:23:52.763+05:30Poetry doesn't "speak" to me, often ...Poetry doesn't "speak" to me, often I don't understand the meanings. But this line of yours, I understand. "True lovers never die, their souls meet in the garb of different bodies in various reincarnations, their need for each other also eternal and undying." It reminds me of a dream I had long ago, where I kept meeting the same soul, as a different man each time, Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-67350629243436160572016-02-17T17:40:40.214+05:302016-02-17T17:40:40.214+05:30Lenny sounds like a great valentine :-) so nice to...Lenny sounds like a great valentine :-) so nice to know about him!<br /><br />Glad you enjoyed the post Hilary. V-Day goes unmarked here as well...as you say, it's the thoughtfulness and the commitment that counts. Sometimes that can manifest in the weirdest or the most unexpected 'gifts' without a show of cards, flowers or hearts. Beyond a certain point, the trappings just become Nilanjana Bosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08656370320322301943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-84485195921134177712016-02-17T17:28:04.411+05:302016-02-17T17:28:04.411+05:30I am completely blown away to see my sonnet placed...I am completely blown away to see my sonnet placed in the same sentence as 116. Thank you! Beyond speechless!Nilanjana Bosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08656370320322301943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147719773752098767.post-65514729113697278002016-02-17T16:00:06.470+05:302016-02-17T16:00:06.470+05:30Hi Nila - this is an excellent post - I loved the ...Hi Nila - this is an excellent post - I loved the history .. as I didn't know anything about it .. so that was enlightening. Valentine's Day sort of passes me by and I don't miss it - or envy people going out ... I'd rather be home and not waste money anyway.<br /><br />Love is much more important than superficial cards, forced flowers, fattening chocolates or heart shaped 'Hilary Melton-Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17596532480645510678noreply@blogger.com