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Question: Poem about Poetry Sort Of!?
My pen is the conduit
Of my hearts power to devour
What is placed in its jaws
It mostly chews paper and ink vapors
Leave trails that we call words
Metaphors sail through the pages
Like verbal birds
And build nests in stanzas
Sing their songs inside a verse
A poet is a poet
Till a poet rides a hearse!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
To quote a line from the musical "Sweeney Todd", "the trouble with poet is how do you know it's deceased!?"

This poem is beautiful, about the fire of putting pen to paper, scribing those trails that we call words, those revelations that to others are ridiculous and to some mind shattering, the power that we possess and yet can never own!.

Oh, we are poets who are beyond death, for people will follow those trails called words until the end of time!.Thank you Semper!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Cool! Like the imagery verbal birds - but then you switch to a melancholy hearse image and my bird fails to fly to far beyond and know the loving Father sky who watches over all!. Yeah, not a sparrow falls but the Father knows!. I know you were being terse to find a rhyming verse but we may curse the hearse ending without some mind bending - let your bird soar first and pluck notes from heather aloft and afield!.

Here's a poem by Eve - I won't comment until you've read it - see what you think of it!.

*Reunion*

Arms outstretched,
Feel the pull,
Clicks and groans,
From my weary old bones

I spring to life and jump once more,
The air gushes and lulls me to sleep
Jumping higher, I fly to my place;
Jump, jump, the sun in my face

Wonder and awe fill my eyes,
My burning memories will be lost in time,
Say a final good-bye to my lonely earth,
Where will I be in my next re-birth!?

Still as beautiful as before,
I see my soul-mate mother once more,
We spin together in a forceful embrace;
So pleased am I to see her faceWww@QuestionHome@Com

Your last six lines sing out and call out the need to pen words, symbols for thoughts and ideas!. I like!. Only critique is just word choice of "conduit"!. Would "medium" or some more esoteric word be better!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

"Hi!",
So true my dear friend!. Creative little verse, I quite enjoyed that!. thx for my bed time poem!.

Goodnight to you, see you tomorrow!.
WELL DONE!

Cheers : )Www@QuestionHome@Com

I can quit being a programmer, I can quit being an electrician, I can even quit being a husband, but I must die to quit being a poet!?

I agree!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

This is the best spoken poem I read so far here!. Speaking like a true poet!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Truism!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Lovely Semper! I could see a little animation that went along with it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Misty good!.Www@QuestionHome@Com