http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/prompt-130-its-post-your-poems-day/
Style?
I love books.
I have books.
Shelves filled with books.
Mysteries, recipes, fantasy.
Children’s stories, filled with facts and history.
And yet...I have few perhaps on poetry
none that I can find on a particular poet
Which you might think strange
because I write the stuff
Have been for years, decades in fact
only gently following
those forms between lines - rules
some of the regulated rules
some rhyming rules
I’ve been reading more poems
from other poets, their poems
heartfelt and full of emotions and life, poems
thanks to the internet
and groups that encourage
trying new approaches
so I too spread my wings
However - I’ve only got this;
These words slowly tripping
to tell you this week that I’ve been here
and I’m a fish out of water
because once again I’ve broken the rules
I am perhaps a fool - forgone the rules
choked on and spit out the rules...
I offer no excuses - my voice
changes often, that is, my muses’ voice
the one that is my heart voice
varies, and it just is what it is
I might reflect and copy
or try to answer another poet
but not often...
© JP/davh
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
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That's funny. I am the same. I have Shakespeare, Donne, Emily Dickinson and that is about it.
ReplyDeleteI know where you're coming from, having
ReplyDeletenot read a great deal of poetry until I started writing it. But now I read more
and more, a lot of it online. I enjoyed your poem.
Interesting take. I, too, love literature and find myself involuntarily "carrying" the words of another author into my poems. Loved the ideas you presented here! :)
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