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Lessons
“Learn as if you were going to live forever.”
--Mahatma Gandhi.
Can anyone really be a poet
only writing in sumptuous free verse,
or can one be boring & not know it?
I used to think Walt Whitman was a god,
but sometimes I try a different form
to tighten my verbose style,
to insure my poetics aren’t lukewarm,
threadbare, shallow or shop-worn.
I say we should never stop learning,
from first poems in the beginning,
to successful forays into classic forms;
from poetic haze into those perfect storms
of words descending as our message pierces
all those readers very receptive hearts,
becoming targets for cupid’s loving darts.
Glenn Buttkus
Posted over at dVerse Poets Pub MTB
10 comments:
I could hear and read your poem with a trimeter beat (three accented line) throughout. Trimeter is a classic meter. It is more about sound than how the poem looks on the page. More about hearing than reading.
Poetry in a nut-shell. Love it Glen!
Somehow I faltered in the "poetic haze" on this challenge. Your assessment is spot on!
"I say we should never stop learning,
from first poems in the beginning"
Aye, aye!
I like what you've done here, Glenn! You've expressed what we do every week so well in teh lines:
'...sometimes I try a different form
to tighten my verbose style,
to insure my poetics aren’t lukewarm,
threadbare, shallow or shop-worn'
and
'from poetic haze into those perfect storms
of words descending as our message pierces
all those readers very receptive hearts'.
I smiled in recognition. And I like your ending - we hone our art to make our impact stronger.
Precious lesson here -- from one wise master poet. Thank you, sir.
Well said, Glenn. Sharpening a poem is what I love about doing the quadrilles. It forces you to think in shorter phrases.
This is beautiful. Indeed we should never stop learning. Well said!
Never stop learning and kudos to you for trying poetic forms such as this one Glenn ~ I agree that poetry forms tightens up our writing ~ Best regards ~
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