That's fine then...Not really I just enjoy writing it
That's fine then...
But may I respectfully suggest that you think about a little bit of study before you call yourself "A poet"?
There are skills and even-- I hate to say the word, but it's true-- rules, even in free verse, (which is what these two examples are). Or guidelines, at least. Taking a fairly normal sentence and breaking it up into random chunks is not really poetry.
Poetry is all about wordplay. The more words you know, the more toys you have to play with. This doesn't mean that they have to be extra fancy words, but-- when your feather strokes your pussy, does pussy want to catch that bird? Mine would be clawing after it, or purring and showing its belly-- so to speak. Poetry lets us explore all the wild and unexpected corners of our language, lets us enjoy rhymes and rhythms allusions and elisions.
To make a poem worth reading and remembering, we want to "see a shape" in the words. Free Verse isn't just chopping the sentence up into four or five syllables-- we want to make the reader think, surprise them with some idea that comes about because each of those chopped lines has meaning or resonance all on its own, enhancing the whole.
Free verse might be free, but it is not cheap. Just like Domme-ing though, it's totally worth the effort you put into it.
That's fine then...
But may I respectfully suggest that you think about a little bit of study before you call yourself "A poet"?
There are skills and even-- I hate to say the word, but it's true-- rules, even in free verse, (which is what these two examples are). Or guidelines, at least. Taking a fairly normal sentence and breaking it up into random chunks is not really poetry.
Poetry is all about wordplay. The more words you know, the more toys you have to play with. This doesn't mean that they have to be extra fancy words, but-- when your feather strokes your pussy, does pussy want to catch that bird? Mine would be clawing after it, or purring and showing its belly-- so to speak. Poetry lets us explore all the wild and unexpected corners of our language, lets us enjoy rhymes and rhythms allusions and elisions.
To make a poem worth reading and remembering, we want to "see a shape" in the words. Free Verse isn't just chopping the sentence up into four or five syllables-- we want to make the reader think, surprise them with some idea that comes about because each of those chopped lines has meaning or resonance all on its own, enhancing the whole.
Free verse might be free, but it is not cheap. Just like Domme-ing though, it's totally worth the effort you put into it.
