Category Archives: Poetry (What is it?)



So, What Are Poems For?

Poetry? A formal and aesthetic
Rendering of perceptions we all share.
The “formal” part (somewhat anesthetic)
Is often what gives poetry its flair.
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Posted in Poetry (What is it?)

Deft

A friendly editor who reads my verse
E-mailed: “your poems have struck a chord in me.”
Unsure, I wondered, was this praise or curse;
A B-flat minor chord, was that the key?
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Posted in Inspiration, Poetry (What is it?), Vanity

The Music Of Critical Response

Well known unwritten protocols insist
On generosity, however mild.
One never growls “Dear friend, please, please desist!
Your hapless, somber verse leaves art defiled.”
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Posted in Poetry (What is it?), Vanity, Words

I The Phoenix

Down at the tennis courts I showed a friend
A morbid poem I wrote last month called “Flame,”
Wherein I cite my own spark’s ashy end—
Burnt out—no light or heat to drive life’s game.
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Posted in Aging, Poetry (What is it?), Wisdom

Poetic Themes

I’ve written about pain
And love, and death.
Versified god
(The source
Of most sorrow
And stress),
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Posted in Greed, Poetry (What is it?), Religion

Eileen

What, one reasonably asks, are poems for?
The answer’s not so simple. They must bloom
With color, fragrance, substance at the core—
With words that swim, reverberate, and croon.
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Posted in Aging, Death, Family, Pain, Poetry (What is it?), Words