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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
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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
i
brush myself into
rainbows
even
i
get to wonder and smile about….
© 2012 felipe adan lerma
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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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thanks so much gay, i really appreciate it, very glad you liked it 😉
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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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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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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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thanks kolembo, glad you liked the poem, and the shape 😉 you’ve an interesting site, best wishes 😉
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I found your opening lines very interesting….what a creative process ~ Thanks for sharing ~
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glad you liked it heaven, thank you 😉
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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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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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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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i love the encouragement & will def try to “brush on” – i like that! 😉 thank you claudia 😉
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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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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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Yes – I love the astonishment at one’s own rainbows bit – very clever and apt! k.
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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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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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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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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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thank you! i appreciate it 😉 it was fun to write and see where it went 😉
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