day three

[ladyksilber]

All My Poetry
All my poetry reads
like poor prose.
I cannot abstract or
symbolize this life.

Homer wrote the Epics,
Shakespeare wrote:
"Words, Words, Words."
I just write
complete sentences.

But, a poem should not
simply be a sentence
with extra spaces.
Or can it?

Comments

[lottiblossom]

This is a fun experiment. I should do it too... though I've never been able to write poems for more than three consecutive days. I'm proud of you for making it a week. A few things especially fun to play with in poetry, so you don't run out of ideas:
1. punctuation (who; needs it!)
2. aesthetics (shifting an "of" one line can make or break an entire piece)
3. wooooooords, as Branagh's Hamlet says (rhyming is fun)