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Poetry?

June 17, 2011
By Joceluna SILVER, Racine, Minnesota
Joceluna SILVER, Racine, Minnesota
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Favorite Quote:
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:21


Poetry?
I am tired of trying to make things rhyme
Are poems meant to just take up time

All the similes about life
Are they supposed to make me strife

Poems make you think
Only sometimes all those thoughts make you sink

What about the poems that make no sense
All they do is rhyme random words like tense and fence

After the first one was written down
Did it make a million people frown

Poems of the lover’s leap
How does it make the romance seep

Poems are like soy
To some they bring great joy

But others take one bite
And decide they just can’t take the fight

Of understanding the point of poetry


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derstern said...
on Jul. 17 2011 at 1:27 pm

I have never read a poem about poetry. Your poem made me ponder about what poetry actually means to me and perhaps to others. Here are my thoughts:

Poetry is a form of expression that brings the million-mile-a-minute thoughts to an abrupt halt without having to write an introduction, plot, and ending. Poems enable the poet to articulate a glimpse of his/her feelings, point of views, and thoughts.

Some poems are just random thoughts scribbled down to describe an experience. Other poems are written to communicate deeper feelings with the ability to hide what we truly want to convey. In a poem you are able to express love without ever using the word “love”; you are able to express hate without using the word “hate”.  

Poems can be very long (i.e. The Illiad by Homer) or very short. I like “Jetzt” by Barbara Rosenfeld, a poem written in German that actually depicts some of what I am conveying.

Jetzt

In dieser Minute, die jetzt ist
und die man gleich wieder vergisst,
hab’ ich Dich lieb
und denke an Dich.

Roughly translated:

Now

In this minute, that is now
and which is forgotten at once
I love you
and think of you.

Words are powerful and can be interpreted in many different ways. As an example; think of the word “wretchedness.” What comes to mind when you hear it? “Wretchedness” sounds negative and some of its synonyms are: mean, terrible, very bad, despicable; but you are able to romanticize even the negative in poetry.  “Wretchedness” also means forlorn, gloomy, depressed, melancholy:

wretchedness – in a long white nightgown she walked in the ocean, never to return.

Whether or not a poem is long or short, metaphorically written or straight forward; all poems describe a moment, an instant – a fraction in time of raw human life and experiences to be forever remembered.  

(With love from Mom)


on Jul. 16 2011 at 11:33 pm

:) now this poem... maybe its written for laughs?

i like it anyhow.