One day at the beach this summer, I had an itch to write poems. So I wrote eight. The only problem is, I don’t know how to write poems. What makes a poem “good?” Here’s two of them.
Sea
There’s more below the surface than you let on
Deep crying out to deep
Gathering up, pushing through, pulling back
Rhythm, chaos; constant, shifting
Toad fish
Toad-like with your legs
Fish-like with your fins
You are polluting our space with your death
If I were fishing I would likely catch you
And be disappointed
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Lady Poetess,
I love your poems; thank you so much for sharing with us!
I think poetry is like prayer; it doesn’t have to be good; it just IS — raw and real.
“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.” ~Thomas Gray
“Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” – Robert Frost
“I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.” – Pablo Neruda
“Poetry is not a subdivision of literature printed in columns instead of across the page and intended mainly for girls and teachers. It is not fantasy and make-believe, but a special way of knowing, as it has been since the Hebrews and Greeks. We cannot know an apple by reading a definition of it. We must see it, taste it, and digest it. So it must be with a poem, which translates experience into insight.” – Helen Lee
Thanks so much for your encouragement and your quotes, Chili. Love that Neruda one. Also I like the idea of translating experience into insight…kinda seems like something I try to do a lot.
Perhaps some poetry will unravel after this year’s Christmas, Mox…
HOPE so.