If there's one message I'm getting from my writing adventures lately, it's that I desperately need to get back to writing poetry regularly again. I miss it! Opened my writing notebook the other day, thinking I'd draft my flash fiction work by hand for a change, and was faced with the fact that the last poem I wrote was immediately after the no from the boy. A, are you serious, oof, and B, that was almost a year ago! (Also C, it actually wasn't a bad piece, but the odds that I'll ever be up for the emotional engagement that would go into cleaning that up - at least for the foreseeable future - are approximately null.) Plus, I've been thinking a lot about what I enjoy writing most and why, and what I find easy to write and why (not always the same thing!), and I think perhaps a big part of what appeals to me about writing drabbles is much the same as what makes poetry come more naturally to me than other things. It's the emphasis on flow and sound and feel, on an equal level with the content itself. And to my delight, I've gotten that feedback from a couple people on my writing recently, that it feels like poetry - which is one of my very favorite compliments I've gotten! Anyway, maybe that should make it into my writing goals for the near future, making a genuine effort at some poetry.

(Semi-relatedly, I really need to pick a universal writing tag - not separate ones for fanfiction and original stuff - and switch to that. Although, who knows, maybe I'll write some fannish poetry too, wouldn't be the first time!)