I look at your site
And I see words
Lovely words
Staring back at me
These words have no form
Every line is capitalised
There is no rhyme or flow
And God forbid there be meter
I am not reading a poem
I am reading a story
A broken story
This tells me nothing
Except I may be at the wrong site
Only I am not
This is really your poem
I cry because I know great poetry has been lost
And I had helped this happen
Might I suggest some Byron
Tennyson, Shakespear, Baudelaire even!
Anything to awaken the foundation we were built on!
Let us revisit the tims of old
And LEARN from them, shall we?
Please tell me what you think
Comments
-
I agree. Writing solid free verse requires as much, if not more, care with structure and poetics as writing form. With form, there is a rich tradition to work within--not follow slavishly, of course, but use to make poetry an art.
The free verse poem has to invent all of this first-hand...and it is extremely difficult to do. Too often, fv results in lists and arbitrarily shaped lines.
Nice satirical touch throughout.
-
Probly sounded better in you head
I do agree with you, I wrote a poem similliar to this a while ago about how every one is replacing the good, classic poems, with those cliche, suicide, dark poems. Classic poetry, like music, is dead. And it's sad.
But poem wise...truthfuly, I did not like this one.I was just like statement after statement, not poetry. I think it almost falls into the catagory of what you were talking about,
"I am not reading a poem
I am reading a story
A broken story
This tells me nothing
Except I may be at the wrong site" -
-
Hmmm...
See, that was kinda my point. I was afraid if I wrote it any other way, people wouldn't get it. It was a satire, dear. But thank you for agreeing with me.
-
Adding your comment:
