Rough Reckoning

In rough numbers, as yet unverified by bean counters, I've so far written and published at my site:

• 285 'Quatrains' on Life(49)/Lifestyle(69)/Love(78)/Place(18)/Wheels(14)/Truth(14)/Choose Life(14)/Sexus(12)/Mars(17).
• 95 'Sonnets' on Life(7)/Love(5)/Art(5)/Truth(12)/Choose Life(6)/Sexus(9)/Mars(53).
• 69 'Collection' poetry, mostly longer pieces, rhyming and with some form, metrical or otherwise. These are broken into Heavens(6)/Life(20)/Love(38)/Cat(5) categories.
• 62 'Short' poems on Life(23)/Logic(7)/Love(32).
• 43 'Beat' poems, with little or no rhyming, free-style forms. They fall into Life(12)/Rant(5)/Love(26) categories.
• 43 'Sentence' poems on Life(12)/Love(31).
• 27 'Word' poems on Life(10)/Love(17).
• 23 'Narrative' poems that tell a story (not short ones). They are broken into General(11)/Greek Mythology(7)/History(6) categories.

For a total of 647. I have another 50 or so that are listed under 'new', and another several dozen that are still in handwritten form (a batch that sat somewhere for a year or so). Another handful lie in notebooks I carry around to capture the ever-present Muse. Yet more are stashed in little "new" subdirectories here and there which I really haven't sorted out. With some trepidation, I'd say the ultimate total could end up as much as a hundred poems higher.

Further rough calculations suggest about a third of my poetry is on the subject of Love.

I'll race the verified numbers to you as soon as they're in.*

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*at this blog appear a couple hundred more, mostly quatrains (as of 4.21.13).