What Is Poetry?
What Is Poetry?
I held my thoughts awkwardly trying to write as
clearly as I could.
I thought out my theme
And put the pen to paper.
I knew what I wanted to convey
Meaning to sound wise
Wanting other people to be impressed
To wonder at my mastery of word and thought.
I put on my serious writers face
and began carefully writing the words of my poem.
As I wrote I felt a sense of manipulating the Reade
It stopped me in my tracks.
I put away the pen and just sat for a while.
Putting words onto paper
I realised that poetry writes itself as if the very Universe
is expressing itself through those who write.
A poet might Copyright Words
Yet the words belong to no one.
That is poetry fluid free and unshackled.
About this poem
This was written to try to illustrate that genuine poetry has no rigid form.
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Written on January 10, 2022
Submitted by t.swistchew65 on January 10, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 721 |
Words | 158 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 2, 3, 6 |
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