07-05-2024, 06:14 AM
hmm...
"As I grow as a poet, my hope is that my poetry will be accessible, yet deep."
If my poems aren't accessible then what's the point? Poems should not need explanantion, yet they do need to leave a reader free to interpret. The 'deep' part is where one can get into deep trouble. Poems can certainly be complex, but if they become obscure, then everybody loses.
Having lost both parents, my sister, and two brothers, I have found each death to be profoundly difficult to write about. I give myself enough time to grieve before I even attempt such a poem. If nothing comes, so be it. Something inevitably does surface, and I'm usually surprised at the direction those poems take.
Some of my stuff takes years to mull over- others 'appear' nearly fully formed- most are somewhere in the middle. None are intentionally deep.
"As I grow as a poet, my hope is that my poetry will be accessible, yet deep."
If my poems aren't accessible then what's the point? Poems should not need explanantion, yet they do need to leave a reader free to interpret. The 'deep' part is where one can get into deep trouble. Poems can certainly be complex, but if they become obscure, then everybody loses.
Having lost both parents, my sister, and two brothers, I have found each death to be profoundly difficult to write about. I give myself enough time to grieve before I even attempt such a poem. If nothing comes, so be it. Something inevitably does surface, and I'm usually surprised at the direction those poems take.
Some of my stuff takes years to mull over- others 'appear' nearly fully formed- most are somewhere in the middle. None are intentionally deep.