indie response about poetry 1
Poetry is a huge part of how I express myself. I am a semi-impulsive speaker, so because poetry adds the other dimension, or layer of writing on paper, it makes me think extensively about what I am trying to say.
The way poems look are equally important to me as the way they make me think. When a poem can express two meanings, one with comprehension and one with the way the words are arranged or broken up is so important. This is why I have major respect for poets such as ee Cummings, or someone like my mentor poet, Madisen Kuhn. I want to get better at having my poems display two meanings at once, in a way that doesn't disrupt the other.
And another thing, I don’t know why this is, but I have such a hard time when poems don’t rhyme? Hopefully I can break that habit.
To conclude, here is a poem I have written about my dad:
“for dad”
The sun comes streaming in, it is a glance inside the state he’s in.
Step right up, a one man show, he’ll can your can’t’s and yes your no’s, and hell, and how? I’ll never know.
I watch his glasses dent his face, I watch his never ending chase, the little girl, I watched his show, And glance inside his office’s glow.
The clock would tick, he held his head, for the little girl, it was time for bed.
Now, at the day’s end, no one cheers. Not even after fifty years. His hair is either gone or grey and thinning more than yesterday. He wrings his hands, calls up to me- but I am never there to see the struggle superman will face.
The days are quicker in their pace,
He’s trying to do the best he can, but I fail to see, he’s only a man.
