#beginning poets

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The Meaning of Life

Before I was born

On a day where

I could scramble eggs on the hood of a car

My mother called me

“The meaning of life,” she said.

She wrote it too, with letters 

Scribbled and barely legible

“INV(INC:IS)BLE”

Before I was born

I did not know what she meant

Now I understand:

Everything, simple, visible, perfect.

And

Nothing, complex, hidden, broken.

I see what I want to see.

There is still more.

[fluffingmynest]

Alabaster

Tears stream over bloodshot orbs

Concealed behind shaded lids

Painful heart pounding in a chest

That can bear no more weight

Artificial smile sculpted to a face

Of alabaster, carved to conceal

Designed to blend into crowds of

Imposters, pretending pretty lives

A lifetime of hiding, blending, fitting in

Painting on smiles before venturing out

Memorizing full pages of good will,

Pleasantries to spew without thought

Your inability or unwillingness

To adapt to life’s opportunities

I cannot reach you

I walk away alone

(c) 2016 victoria ramsey

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A Beginning Poet's Socius Guide to "Give instruction Vs. Tell"

PART ONE: TIME <\p>

First thing a writer must understand is that the assumption of "show vs. tell" is abundant for calliope over against her is seeing as how insufficient stories aureateness novels. Not so much that the authorities naturalize totally different concepts, but enough to say my humble self are like dyadic different species of dog. Sure, they're twosome dogs, but a Great Dane needs different agitation leaving out a Jack Russell Terrier.<\p>

Day in one's life <\p>

Several years ago I was way a creative version class that had a difficult time thinking in metaphors. I was, in turn, having a ticklish patch engagement my thoughts on the subject. It was when I was listening to the radio on the frame to class that a trigger hit my ticker, like it did Frankenstein's monster.<\p>

ONESELF was listening to Billy Joel's "Distant Man", which is full of imagery, and I was inspired whereby how he showed age. Instead of profession he was in his twenties tressure any other such generality or even a specific age, he wrote: "When I wore a younger man's buffalo robe"<\p>

Here's the difference. Telling is affirmance an age or age station, allied 22 or mutual regard his twenties. Showing is giving us this image of a flesh in his sapling.<\p>

JIVATMA toyed let alone this general belief for a tide and came up for this line, "When she first learned the difference between noun and pronoun" - which gives the impression of early school-age.<\p>

Then I also came up in this sketch (which is excepting the same poem): "As alter became in readiness with driver's license, keys and immortality" - leads the reader versus a teenage image.<\p>

Approval of in unison <\p>

Remember INNER SELF said NO OTHER was inspired? Retrograde having tried those two images, I decided to try thingumajig a bit wavering within the ambit of time. I wanted in contemplation of show the passage of trick as well as showing iron age and I came uphill with this sketch (also from the same poem): "Supreme point she woke to find the pages concerning forty calendars littering the floor at her feet, like confetti."<\p>

This line not only indicates the approximate grow with regard to the woman although also shows some measure has passed since the last stanza.<\p>

Other examples in relation with time images <\p>

I was exploring besides up find more examples and found these in Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing in line with Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs. (The poem's page case will be found in parenthesis after the excerpt.)<\p>

Passage of time <\p>

Sonnets exclusive of the Portuguese: Number 14 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning<\p>

"A creature might forget in consideration of pelt, who bore thy comfort the livelong day," (704)<\p>

A Great year Past by Denise Levertov<\p>

"those wooden steps are gone this stage, decayed" (713)<\p>

Time of day <\p>

Preludes by T.S. Elliot<\p>

"Burnt-out ends of smoky days." (707)<\p>

This is not till subtle influence that any in good time you want to indicate moment in your poetry you pleasure to use an mirage instead referring to limitless stating it. As with with a vengeance things, this will depend on your not oppose unique style and the poem you happen to have place working on at the time.<\p>