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The Emperor’s New Poem
Posted by sasha on 17 May 2012 in just plain rambling | ∞
Poetry perplexes me.
They say it arouses feelings.
In me, it arouses the feeling
that I’m missing something.
Some great poetic joke.
Perhaps I can write poetry.
Just insert
carriage returns
in odd places
Punctuation and grammar optional
Capitalization Random,
the occasional blank line.
What do you feel now?
Other places I ramble
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8 Comments
I feel just like you do
Glad I’m not alone
. Do you ever try to read it? Meena has recently glommed-on to a couple of Shel Silverstein books, and we’re enjoying them together. Maybe that will help put me into the poetry frame of mind… I’d love to get there! The people who love it really REALLY love it!
I love poetry but it tool me awhile to figure out how to read it.
I seem to remember you recommending Margaret Atwood’s poetry, no? Still on my ‘to read’ list. I should double check if I ever got around to requesting some at the library.
I don’t get it either. I like some of it, but I always get impatient and read it too fast.
Ditto. Poetry is not for skimmers. Curious – do you also skim/skip poems and song lyrics in novels? I’m terrible for that.
It wasn’t until I read Allison’t comment that I realised that perhaps I have the same problem… I never appreciate poetry (and never have). I’m a skim reader so perhaps that’s why I don’t appreciate it enough!
Deb
Maybe we both need to learn to slow down, stop and savour the metaphors
. I should ask Brie for a tutorial on how to read poetry.