After seeing the "How long does it take you to write a story?" topic, I decided to ask how long it takes you to write a poem. It generally takes me no more than 15 minutes to write a poem of maybe a couple of verses, but I've never really written anything bigger than that. For me poetry is a quick way to deal with my emotions then and there without refining them too much. I like it raw, whereas I like my stories to be somewhat polished. So how long does it take you lovely poets to write a poem?

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Good question! Normally, I'm the same as you. Only one took me two sittings to do, and that's because I went out to do some "research" halfway through (I went to feed the squirrels in the park during autumn).

I either get intense emotion and I blurt it all out as a cathartic exercise, or I get an idea and think, I'll write about that. It doesn't take very long. But then, I'm very impatient with myself and just like to get it finished.

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It takes me a few minutes to write a poem.

There are times when a thought just pops up and the words flow. Then like that, there is a poem. It's perfect and beautiful. It only took a few minutes. Those are the ones that seem to be the best ones for me. Then again, I get an idea and work on it...work on it... And, it never sees the light of day.

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You just helped me remember a word that had been on the tip of my tongue for ages: "cathartic", thank you. Man that feels so good! Almost poetic, in fact.

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I used to write them during a meal to recite at the end. Most of those were 8 verses or more.

I have written three in two days but there is one that has taken me 25 years I am only getting round to finish. And that is only 4 verses.

What I usually do is to write three or four verses and then stop and think about how to twist it. In 'to all the crap lovers I have cuckolded' the first draft had the speaker sounding too much like they were just boastful. I didn't like that, I wanted anger. So I waited a day then reworked the middle to add in the 'bloody fool' piece.

So its not the time writing, its the time rewriting.

The next one I did began as just an attack piece berating a guy for having a small dick. Which was funny and I could probably have kept that up for 12 verses. But It becomes monotonal. So when I came back and thought about what the mistress was saying I decided I could show that she actually had a very different complaint.

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three to five years.

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You are invited to read Passionate Danger, Part II, a story collaboration by Kim and ArtMan.
http://www.lushstories.com/stories/straight-sex/passionate-danger-part-ii.aspx

Hm, I've just got into writing poetry and tend to look at various forms and think I'll have a go. I think, for me, it's the discipline of working to a particular rhyme or meter rather than a medium for expressing my emotions. In that sense I do sit down and think "let's just bang this thing out." Having said that I often find the rhyming challenges on the forums quite useful.

Sometimes something will just emerge quite quickly and other times it takes some work.

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Just put a new story up called Venus: My Mistress In Leather and Lace. It seems a long time since I have written any prose, been seduced by prosody. Anyway, please feel free to check it out - Thank you xxx

For me it depends on the poetic form as well as the inspiration ... Haiku are fairly instantaneous, 8/6 syllable rhyming couplets seem to flow quite naturally so usually no more than a couple of hours, but more complicated forms such as Sonnets often take me 24 hours and undergo as many edits and re-writes as I would give a prose story.

Recently I tried to write something in the same format as Dante's Divine Comedy which has a hendecasyllabic (11 syllables per line) rhythm and is composed of a tercet rhyme scheme (aba, bcb, cdc) ... which ended up being two of the most painful and pointless hours of my entire life x

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Yes, you should have a hazard label on you, "warning CG will be your every fantasy"