Poetry

» mistertom - Poetry today

Present day poetry suffers from the dumbing down of nearly every human endevour that requires work. At current recitals one has to listen to monologues of people emptying their emotional intestines in chopped prose; most couldn't tell you why a line starts and ends. Poetry is an art form, and in the forms that keep in touch with ordinary human beings, has a wide and appreciative audience. Art requires work; poetry requires form. Poetry need not rhyme; it must sing in the heart and head, therefore, as the human spirit craves for order in this crazy universe, it must have form. One can borrow successful patterns, as an examle my best prize winning poem was built on the skeleton of Dylan Thomases 'Fern Hill'. I thought it was good when I submitted it, but to hear it read by a trained actress and drama teacher at the prize giving was an experience I shall never forget. Let us not write poetry for an emotional laxative, but entertain, and send the spirit of quite a large portion of the thinking world soaring in the Heavens.

-- posted by mistertom