What is a Poem? Some lines I love...
'For me, a good poem is a gust of wind in the face, ruffling the hair.
It's a stone in the shoe,
a laugh in church,
a lie in the confessional,
a fart in a perfume shop,
a pig that flies,
a small glass of urine shining on the breakfast tables of the idle rich.
It's the stone in David's sling,
the thing we don't dare say in prose, or don't know how to say in prose.
It's the hidden part of the iceberg,
the sneer or the grin on the face of death-in-life,
the twisted thought that helps straighten the crooked road of this world.
Poetry is a permanent fighting back against the hopeless odds of life itself, a simple or complicated declaration that, for the moment, one is.'
These fabulous lines were taken from the following website: http://www.virtualwriter.net/poetry/poetryexercises.php?action=3&id=12
It's a stone in the shoe,
a laugh in church,
a lie in the confessional,
a fart in a perfume shop,
a pig that flies,
a small glass of urine shining on the breakfast tables of the idle rich.
It's the stone in David's sling,
the thing we don't dare say in prose, or don't know how to say in prose.
It's the hidden part of the iceberg,
the sneer or the grin on the face of death-in-life,
the twisted thought that helps straighten the crooked road of this world.
Poetry is a permanent fighting back against the hopeless odds of life itself, a simple or complicated declaration that, for the moment, one is.'
These fabulous lines were taken from the following website: http://www.virtualwriter.net/poetry/poetryexercises.php?action=3&id=12
posted by Liz at 4:48 p.m.
1 Comments:
Hi Liz, How are you? Thanks for dropping by and for directing me to those words.I must check out the website where you found them. I love the iceberg bit and fully empathise
with the last lines 'Poetry is a permanent fighting back against the hopeless odds of life itself, a simple or complicated declaration that, for the moment, one is.' I once compared poetry to up-market graffiti in that it is shouting 'Oi, Look! I was here!'
I also think poetry would make great graffiti,I might give it a lash!We gotta keep fighting!
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