Must... write... poems

Somewhere between the finishing of my thesis, polishing of two manuscripts and a mountain of freelance work to pay the bills, I seem to have written no new poetry for a while. It's a bad habit to lose, as it were. But a hoo-haa about what counts as rhyme over at Poets on Fire has given me a few ideas - for technical exercise really, but it's something to go on. I won't post my list of ideas here, since the last time I did so it was the death knell for them all.

Still: cat... dog...