Category Archives: Poetry (What is it?)



The Art Of Poetry

Powerful poems pack profundity
In few agitated words,

Honoring minimalists
Whose thin wisps move minds
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Posted in Poetry (What is it?)

My Neighbor

Poetry 101 lays down stiff rules—
Each word must count, strike hard! Eschew clichés!
But rules (the cliché holds), often just tools,
Are made to be broken, and clichés say, Continue reading →

Posted in Neighbors, Poetry (What is it?)

A Philosophical Inquiry into the Adjective “Conventional”

The Book of Gilgamesh, four thousand years
Ago, launched written poetry. Since then
Myriad forms—dramatic, lyric—seared
Raw hearts and ripened souls with passion penned, Continue reading →

Posted in Bullshit, Poetry (What is it?)

Haiku: The Inevitable Failure of Art

Gigantic ideas
Shrink, shrivel while journeying
From mind to paper.

The glow in my head Continue reading →

Posted in Inspiration, Poetry (What is it?), Words

Us, Not Me, Dammit!

A well-known poet recently remarked
“I like to watch the breeze-blown bamboo sway.”
Inordinately fazed, that comment sparked
Disdain, rage, in me. Like a burro’s bray, Continue reading →

Posted in Bullshit, Poetry (What is it?)

Death and Poetry: Feh!

Obituary readers play a game
(They cannot help themselves, it’s in the genes),
Though they discover death is just the same

Whether old or young, living wild or tame Continue reading →

Posted in Bullshit, Death, Poetry (What is it?)