On the Ridiculousness of Being a Poet
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Poem by: KEJones
On the Ridiculousness of Being a Poet:
How seldom thoughts can center senseless things:
Make sense of feelings, severed child-like wings
Which dare to show our earnest loving hearts
Those hidden shadows dark with secret arts.
Why trouble seeing, being selfish, find
It so much better being simply blind?
No thoughts nor words, no simple image makes
That we, ourselves, cannot but choose to fake.
What true emotion do we not defend
Can just be seen by efforts at pretend?
Why try to reason feelings from inside?
Let’s pick and pry with words that can decide.
Each concept, action, movement, heartbeat, more
Those deep, well-worked and fickle words explore
Should make you listen, laugh at each attempt
And maybe see you treat with more contempt.
For what are poets for, but silly things
Who try to capture feelings, thoughts, and dreams?
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A very interesting poem with great flow and good rhyming. I think you should delete the "For" at the beginning of the penultimate line.
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Thanks. I know what you mean about deleting the "for". I agree it is not necessary. However, I wanted to keep the iambic pentameter precise. I'd almost want to use the word 'but' instead of 'for' but it flows even worse that way...
Excellent work! I feel the same way so I can relate. Wow! You won a literary contest? Nice! To be honest I only write short stories and possibly novels, never poems. In fact, I was neither good at poetry nor interested. But one day, sitting doing nothing, I decided to write a poem and publish it here on Booksie. Guess what? Readers loved it!! I was astounded and felt more like doing more of it. That first poem is called "Dungeon with Dragoons" and hopefully you'll check it out when you can.
Overall great job at expressing the ridiculous feeling we have every time we think about writing a poem, like, "What the hell am I saying?!" hahaha. Cheers!!
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HA! Agreed. I did read Dungeon with Dragons yesterday. I think it is a good experimental poem. I thought you could really expand upon it and take it to the next level. I also thought I might not fully understand it if it had anything to do with the game. I'm not really a gamer. My thoughts are to not be afraid to sound ridiculous when writing poetry. I think when we feel most foolish, we are really getting to something meaningful.
Yes! This is awesome! The last two lines in particular :)
If you would like to read some new poetry, check out my page, best wishes!
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