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Pictured, “101 Sports Poems” –
Post is in response to Meeting the Bar prompt from dVersepoets, hosted by Charles Miller, on the theme of writing a poem that fills in the gaps to why one’s previous poem was written; great intro essay.
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dVersepoets Prompt – Meeting the Bar: Filling in the Gaps
hosted by charles miller
my originating poem for this poem, is “march madness” written a few days ago
charles posits that (my bolding),
“More modern poets make up for this disjunction between life and poetry by filling their poems with more and more personal, historical, social, or other details. Many poems try to fill in the gaps left by the disjunction between the moment of poetry and real life by providing enough detail to let you know what gave rise to the poem. No doubt, we aren’t talking about causal events like a chemical producing a reaction but cause defined in terms of meaning, not always directly discernible by observers or instruments.”
he gives examples of “more” meaning using work from ts eliot and dante
of the latter, he says,
“You’ll notice that I haven’t used the term commentary for what Dante does in this work. This is because I don’t think he’s doing literary criticism or dissecting his work like a literary critic does. Instead, he’s trying to show us how all the pieces fit together….”
the prompt intro is a richly written piece of interest to most any poet, and the prompt itself is challenging yet intriguing
this then, is my poem about my previous poem about sports and team work and individualism, why i relished celebrating all that is something that’s sometimes thought of as “just playing sports” 😉
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The Surround Sound Around My Last Poem
all the fighting in-
fighting and discourse
what is what isn’t
yoga
no brain all heart
all science no emotion
not asanas only meditation
can these yogi-folk not see
they’re arguing which team’ll
win march madness?
height, no speed, nope coaching
yea yea yea
the individual’s nothing the
team’s the diva and yet it’s
all one
yea yea
all one
yea
well
it is or it isn’t
this was my yoga reading world
recently
in the ethers ny times and tweetdom
yoga, slow and done consciously
is where i found my awareness
was hiding
waiting
for me to breathe
ahhhh, yes…
the rest
as dalai man says
is all extra
add ons
trim
and the world
at spring break once again
has an oil gas crisis
again
its
march
madness
‘cept that the latter has
rules
we agreed on
© 2012 adam light creations / adan lerma
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