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dVerse Poets Pub : Ars Poetica – Poems about Poetry

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dVersePoets is continuing to celebrate a year of poets getting together and sharing their work in a supportive environment, thanks to co-founders brian miller and claudia schoenfeld

recently i posted a series of writings and samples about my fiction writing, now i have the opportunity to write a small poem about writing poetry!

this “forms” prompt, from gay reiser cannon, is focused on asking what is poetry, beginning by saying :

Most scholars agree that poetry is linked to our most primitive past, and came into existence in an expression of emotions usually accompanied by rhythms (percussion, drums, singing, chanting,) and music. Therefore it enjoys the station of one of man’s oldest and basic arts.

she then presents an interesting look at poetry in term of “content,” “form,” and “effect” and includes a short piece from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

i had written my poem below before reading that portion, but am glad to follow in his invaluable sensed poet’s tradition of the elements 😉

it’s amazing the varied range of discussion in the prompts from dVersePoets, i hope you get to go by there and check it out

How I Write Poetry

i’m an air sign that

catches fire

sparklers and bursting

then

doused with rain

sprinkles and gushers

carried,

bleeding pigments,

into the earth

sandy and rocky and fertile

but i

started as air

and

inevitably rise in wisps

from the tendrils of plants

as pollens of oxygen

wrapping myself

forgivingly

into

cyclones and breezes

into

air

once more

it’s how

brush myself into

rainbows

even

get to wonder and smile about….

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20 responses to “dVerse Poets Pub : Ars Poetica – Poems about Poetry, How I Write Poetry”

Gay (@beachanny)

July 16, 2012 at 8:01 pm

What a great opening – I am an air sign that catches fire – there’s poetry blazing in every line here. What a fabulous poem!

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1. yoga-adan
  
  July 16, 2012 at 9:07 pm
  
  thanks so much gay, i really appreciate it, very glad you liked it 😉
  
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Chazinator

July 14, 2012 at 12:26 pm

This poem has so much of the lightness and playfulness of what poetry can mean. I think too that poetry can liberate our spirits, raise them into realms where possibility is the rule. Your poem gives a sense of that possibility both in content and in its form.

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1. yoga-adan
  
  July 14, 2012 at 10:03 pm
  
  that is very kind of you charles, thank you 😉 to have both the content and form work for you is a real treat, so much is possible 😉
  
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kolembo

July 13, 2012 at 8:26 pm

Ha! And to think I almost skipped this! I wondered whether I really wanted to the ‘shape’ poem, and carried on since I’d started anyway, and my smile kept broading, and the words expanding – and what an experience!

This is a GREAT piece!

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1. yoga-adan
  
  July 13, 2012 at 9:42 pm
  
  thanks kolembo, glad you liked the poem, and the shape 😉 you’ve an interesting site, best wishes 😉
  
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Heaven (@asweetlust)

July 13, 2012 at 5:42 pm

I found your opening lines very interesting….what a creative process ~ Thanks for sharing ~

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1. yoga-adan
  
  July 13, 2012 at 5:49 pm
  
  glad you liked it heaven, thank you 😉
  
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Susan

July 13, 2012 at 12:43 am

air and fire, but air: and therefore I get from you fireworks and photosynthesis, the bursts and whispers of sound and life.

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1. yoga-adan
  
  July 16, 2012 at 12:16 pm
  
  susan, just found (along with a comment from stu, also via dversepoets) your comment in my spam folder!
  
  thank you for sharing what you found in my lines, esp liked, “the bursts and whispers of sound and life”
  
  gonna try and remember to check my spam stuff maybe once a week or two, take care, blessings 😉
  
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claudia

July 13, 2012 at 12:06 am

i
brush myself into
rainbows….nice…there are so many potential colors…much more than those that can be seen..brush on felipe….smiles

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1. yoga-adan
  
  July 13, 2012 at 6:52 am
  
  i love the encouragement & will def try to “brush on” – i like that! 😉 thank you claudia 😉
  
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  1. claudia
    
    July 14, 2012 at 8:38 am
    
    smiles..yes..do this…just thought i’d pop in and wish you a lovely weekend.. hope your wife is doing well
    
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    1. yoga-adan
      
      July 14, 2012 at 5:25 pm
      
      thanks claudia, for both the lovely weekend and good wishes for sheila, she’s doing much much better, even if wearing herself out (a tiny bit) getting herself back into her former mobile self – now she’s hinting she’s getting eager to see “how much better” she’ll be able to get around 😉
      
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ManicDdaily

July 12, 2012 at 11:38 pm

Yes – I love the astonishment at one’s own rainbows bit – very clever and apt! k.

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1. yoga-adan
  
  July 13, 2012 at 6:39 am
  
  thanks K., i appreciate that, i do seem to keep being surprised, a la third person, at some of the stuff that ends up on the page 😉
  
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brian miller

July 12, 2012 at 11:31 pm

i like to smile at your rainbows as well…love the transformations through out this as well…through all the elements…air, fire, water, earth…taking a bit of each and back to air to lift it up…nice adan…

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1. yoga-adan
  
  July 13, 2012 at 6:51 am
  
  thanks brian, kinda like dust to dust but from air to air 😉 i’ve often wondered what our wanderings through the years might be about, seems to be something about absorbing things from the people and events in our lives, nice prompt from gay, thanks 😉
  
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flipside records

July 12, 2012 at 11:11 pm

Very creative, Adan. I really like this section:

“but i
started as air
and
inevitably rise in wisps
from the tendrils of plants
as pollens of oxygen”

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1. yoga-adan
  
  July 13, 2012 at 6:47 am
  
  thank you! i appreciate it 😉 it was fun to write and see where it went 😉
  
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