03-20-2013, 04:19 AM
Thank you, Todd and Leanne...I had no idea where to post it, but I had a burning need to say something.
I have noticed, and forgive me if I am misguided, that the poems going unnoticed are perhaps somewhat more challenging in terms of syntax, vocabulary and theme....and also less adherent to the prosaic conversational tone of what I am assuming are efforts at modernism, influenced by spoken word.
If that has any relevance, it makes me sad and worried that I have just no place in the poetry arena of this society and this century. Many of the things I have been reproached for in the comments I receive are actually just the way I think, and speak....not any forced attempt to emulate poetry from another era.
I have absorbed what you said about reading a poem several times before commenting and I will let it sink in and soothe my discomfort. But, part of me is sticking out my stubborn chin and saying, "MOST of the readers here are undoubtedly reading the poems a single time." I hope my inner brat is wrong.
I have noticed, and forgive me if I am misguided, that the poems going unnoticed are perhaps somewhat more challenging in terms of syntax, vocabulary and theme....and also less adherent to the prosaic conversational tone of what I am assuming are efforts at modernism, influenced by spoken word.
If that has any relevance, it makes me sad and worried that I have just no place in the poetry arena of this society and this century. Many of the things I have been reproached for in the comments I receive are actually just the way I think, and speak....not any forced attempt to emulate poetry from another era.
I have absorbed what you said about reading a poem several times before commenting and I will let it sink in and soothe my discomfort. But, part of me is sticking out my stubborn chin and saying, "MOST of the readers here are undoubtedly reading the poems a single time." I hope my inner brat is wrong.