Some of you might know that my published children’s story was taken from a memory I shared with my Dad. With my new poetry venture, I used the same memory and wrote about laying into that Northern Pike back when I was fourteen. Now I didn’t fit it into a sonnet this time, but I used iambic pentameter with ten syllables per line. To explain Iambic pentameter, you write words in “unstressed-stressed, unstressed-stressed” for a total of ten syllables.

For example, “I wrote my story” follows this. I and my are unstressed while wrote and the first syllable of “sto’/ry” are stressed.

Now the challenge of writing poetry I’ve faced is hitting that ten-syllable mark. When I finished, most of the poem did, but a few lines didn’t or else the unstressed-stressed meter was off. After fixing one part, another part would be thrown off so I’m now entangled in fixing this poem. One one hand I love the problem solving, but on the other hand, It’d be nice to be finished with the editing. Hopefully, I can be satisfied with it in a week or two.

For a taste, I’ll give you the first couple lines:

“We trolled the waters still of Nancy Lake

In hopes to snag a northern, Dad and I.”

A Moment of Memory by Jeremy D. Vance

I know, not very profound yet, but it’s still an on-going work. Trust me, the action builds.

Until next post,

Jeremy D Vance

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