Finding the Poet Within.
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 5:47 pm
Thought I would bring this over from the 'events' page.
Finding the Poet Within.
So you think you’re a poet spending all your time
just tinkering with free verse or some classic rhyme,
or maybe you like haiku, tanka, abc,
some sonnets, or Australian bush poetry.
Perhaps it’s in a couplet, stories you can tell
or could you like the challenge of a villanelle.
An epic might excite, but not an epigram,
might write a limerick while riding in a tram.
Iambic pentameter might just turn you on,
or can one narrative be like a marathon.
Then when you write a lyric, does it tug your heart,
and when you pen some lays, are they a piece of art?
Some idyll poetry depicts a country dream
or does romanticism want to make you scream.
With over 55 great forms of poetry,
to name them all right now is challenging for me.
Because there’s such a choice why study only one,
but learn the disciplines of how they are all done.
Appreciate the work in every single style,
attempt to write them all, becoming versatile.
And don’t stray from this path, one day you’ll make a choice
then find your worldly niche, your own poetic voice.
Some scholars try to push one form of poetry,
they won’t open their minds and let their thoughts be free.
So make sure you can read all of the books you can
on poets and their styles or where it all began.
And keep on learning and accept the discipline,
for one day you will find, the poet deep within.
David J Delaney
24/07/2012 ©
Finding the Poet Within.
So you think you’re a poet spending all your time
just tinkering with free verse or some classic rhyme,
or maybe you like haiku, tanka, abc,
some sonnets, or Australian bush poetry.
Perhaps it’s in a couplet, stories you can tell
or could you like the challenge of a villanelle.
An epic might excite, but not an epigram,
might write a limerick while riding in a tram.
Iambic pentameter might just turn you on,
or can one narrative be like a marathon.
Then when you write a lyric, does it tug your heart,
and when you pen some lays, are they a piece of art?
Some idyll poetry depicts a country dream
or does romanticism want to make you scream.
With over 55 great forms of poetry,
to name them all right now is challenging for me.
Because there’s such a choice why study only one,
but learn the disciplines of how they are all done.
Appreciate the work in every single style,
attempt to write them all, becoming versatile.
And don’t stray from this path, one day you’ll make a choice
then find your worldly niche, your own poetic voice.
Some scholars try to push one form of poetry,
they won’t open their minds and let their thoughts be free.
So make sure you can read all of the books you can
on poets and their styles or where it all began.
And keep on learning and accept the discipline,
for one day you will find, the poet deep within.
David J Delaney
24/07/2012 ©
