Poetic Talent
May 20th 2007 01:14
Someone in a response to my blog on Minor Poets over in my other blog You Should Read ... accused me of having a lack of poetic talent.
That doesnt worry me too much since what little I have seen of their writing suggests they're addicted to the self(ish) indulgence of expression "technique".
You know the sort of thing ... it must be a poem cos
I say so and I wrote it and it's all about my feelings!
not that this approach doesnt produce good verse sometimes but I've noticed poets who over (ab) use it tend overall to have a very uneven quality of verse. And yes that remark includes famous free verse poets like T.S. Eliot!
I I I ... the favorite pronoun along with me of three years and cats!
It's all about me may be cute coming from a four legged pet feline but is gross egoism coming from an adult human???
Poems require structure and inspiration.
Good free verse may not have an obvious metre but it still has structure and form,
linkages into a pattern of ideas or images or sounds.
It's not just gushing!!!
Poetic talent
From the Oxford Dictionary
Poetic: of, proper to, or poetry, having the qualities of good poetry, written in verse,
The Oxford also defines poetry as expression of thought or feeling in metrical form.
Form Expression. Structure Inspiration!
Talent: Special aptitude, faculty, gift, for doing ...
Well I have attitude anyway. I have no claims to being special. I think I can claim some skill and a few moments of inspiration which have become poems.
Poetic Talent?
Well here's a few more poems! You judge for yourselves gentle and not so gentle readers!
All poems copyright to Julie Vaux
Thurs jan 11 1990 Spider Lace
Oh the beauty of the dark spinner's web
when after the dull heavy drizzle,
the rain drops change from glass, after their ebb,
to diamond drops of hazy dazzle!
April 1990 Autumn's Irony
The wind's so sharp and chill
yet what burns the leaves?
Is frost a flame?
Prayer for the Dead March 20 1990
One of our staff members at the place I was working in at that time died in a car accident on the way to work
She was Viet and I wasnt sure if she was buddhist or catholic
This world is like a field
Where madmen scatter seeds.
Change is its constant yield.
Mingled with the wild weeds
Are lotus flowers and green rice.
By force from this world you've been freed.
Seek now for Paradise
Swiftly, whatever was your creed!
May you receive entry or rebirth
In a far better place than this Earth!
Another haiku July 1990
the great tree is a cloud
pouring down shadow on the grass
the green deepens
A Cinquain
Midnight
and that color
niether blue nor quite black
surrounds the stars with infinite
Shadow.
Did the use of form structure metre rhyme etc help fix that moment of emotion inspiration expression and reaction into a poem?
Do any of these work for you?
The Muses' Blessing by the Name and the power and the grace of the Divine be upon all who read and respond ... POLITELY.
That doesnt worry me too much since what little I have seen of their writing suggests they're addicted to the self(ish) indulgence of expression "technique".
You know the sort of thing ... it must be a poem cos
I say so and I wrote it and it's all about my feelings!
not that this approach doesnt produce good verse sometimes but I've noticed poets who over (ab) use it tend overall to have a very uneven quality of verse. And yes that remark includes famous free verse poets like T.S. Eliot!
I I I ... the favorite pronoun along with me of three years and cats!
It's all about me may be cute coming from a four legged pet feline but is gross egoism coming from an adult human???
Poems require structure and inspiration.
Good free verse may not have an obvious metre but it still has structure and form,
linkages into a pattern of ideas or images or sounds.
It's not just gushing!!!
Poetic talent
From the Oxford Dictionary
Poetic: of, proper to, or poetry, having the qualities of good poetry, written in verse,
The Oxford also defines poetry as expression of thought or feeling in metrical form.
Form Expression. Structure Inspiration!
Talent: Special aptitude, faculty, gift, for doing ...
Poetic Talent?
Well here's a few more poems! You judge for yourselves gentle and not so gentle readers!
All poems copyright to Julie Vaux
Thurs jan 11 1990 Spider Lace
Oh the beauty of the dark spinner's web
when after the dull heavy drizzle,
the rain drops change from glass, after their ebb,
to diamond drops of hazy dazzle!
April 1990 Autumn's Irony
The wind's so sharp and chill
yet what burns the leaves?
Is frost a flame?
Prayer for the Dead March 20 1990
One of our staff members at the place I was working in at that time died in a car accident on the way to work
She was Viet and I wasnt sure if she was buddhist or catholic
This world is like a field
Where madmen scatter seeds.
Change is its constant yield.
Mingled with the wild weeds
Are lotus flowers and green rice.
By force from this world you've been freed.
Seek now for Paradise
Swiftly, whatever was your creed!
May you receive entry or rebirth
In a far better place than this Earth!
Another haiku July 1990
the great tree is a cloud
pouring down shadow on the grass
the green deepens
A Cinquain
Midnight
and that color
niether blue nor quite black
surrounds the stars with infinite
Shadow.
Did the use of form structure metre rhyme etc help fix that moment of emotion inspiration expression and reaction into a poem?
Do any of these work for you?
The Muses' Blessing by the Name and the power and the grace of the Divine be upon all who read and respond ... POLITELY.
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Comment by Anonymous
your puritan ass reeks of pomposity
blogHER
Comment by scholia
Which I'm not!
Why dont you go play with your "friend" from Adelaide.
Any further posts from you will be deleted until you learn to actually comment on the topic.
Define poetic talent or be silent!
I'm not playing I can be bitchier than you !
Too Easy to be feline!
You made an accusation.
I posted poems in defence.
You didnt and you've provided no evidence for your claim.
Accusation is not evidence or proof
Go read a book and dont come back here until you've learnt to discuss an idea like an adult instead of acting like a whiny insecure teenager.
I'm not here to play ego games!
I'll leave it to the lurkers and readers to vote or not vote for the poems I used as a comment on whether or not I have any poetic skills or talent?
"scholia"
Comment by Julie Vaux
Books Well Read
Strange Situations
The Purple Challenge
Thank you whoever made them!
I'll take that as approval though I do acknowledge that doesnt necessarily mean you liked the poems?