{"id":1709,"date":"2009-05-18T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2009-05-18T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T20:22:00","slug":"roberta-swetlows-writing-an-octologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/roberta-swetlows-writing-an-octologue\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberta Swetlow's writing an octologue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we have a poem by Roberta Swetlow in a relatively new and novel form \u2013 an octologue. This was invented by Pat Gomes and consists of eight line stazas, with syllables arranged: 3,5,3,3,5,3,3,3 and with each line capped. For more information see the Octologue section on Pat's website <\/span>www.patriciagomes.com\/id7.html <\/a>

Roberta says she wrote this after a (frustrating attempt to have a) conversation with her husband…<\/span>


And So It Goes<\/span>

\u201cMy great plan<\/span>
Was just rejected.<\/span>
I don\u2019t know<\/span>
What to do.\u201d<\/span>
\u201cCould you ask him to \u2013\u201c<\/span>
\u201cI don\u2019t know<\/span>
What to do.<\/span>
Do you know?\u201d<\/span>

\u201cWhat about \u2013\u201d<\/span>
\u201cI thought it would work,<\/span>
They said no.<\/span>
I don\u2019t know\u201d<\/span>
\u201cMaybe you could try -\u201d<\/span>
\u201cCan you think<\/span>
Of something<\/span>
I can do?\u201d<\/span>


* Roberta Swetlow finds inspiration and frustration in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, with her husband, adult children, and the Cat of the House<\/span>
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Today we have a poem by Roberta Swetlow in a relatively new and novel form \u2013 an octologue. This was invented by Pat Gomes and consists of eight line stazas, with syllables arranged: 3,5,3,3,5,3,3,3 and with each line capped. For more information see the Octologue section on Pat's website www.patriciagomes.com\/id7.html Roberta says she wrote this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}