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AM I A POET

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Am I a poet? I really don’t know, how would you judge such a thing?
I don’t write of seasons, of mists or of snow, or the sound of sweet birdsong in spring

I don’t write of autumn, the falling of leaves, these things we can all plainly see
A mighty oak verdant, resplendent with leaves? Sorry, to me it’s a tree

I don’t write of emotions, of true love and passion, for we all have experienced these
And we all know the feeling of summer sunshine and the scent of wild flowers on the breeze

Why would I write of the babbling stream, everyone’s heard one of those
And beautiful maidens, glimpsed in a dream, just don’t have a place in my prose

As for spiritual insights, they just leave me cold, I really don’t know what they are
The only spirit I’ve met in the whole of my life was dispensed in a glass in a bar

But sometimes I share some events in my life, things that are unique to me
That’s the nearest I come to “serious” verse, I leave the rest to the others you see

And sometimes I write some comical nonsense that seems to be quite well received
And everyone tells me how clever I am but I think that you’ve all been deceived

‘Cos if I was clever I’d know what to do, the solution I’d have in a tick
How to unblock my brain and get myself going and finish that damn silly Epic
 
You are a fine poet, it's not all about Daffodils, it's about pleasure in what you do. Keep on Truckin O0
 
:angel: Jerry you tell it how you see it and that's fine by me. Also most of you poem's make me laugh and that's great. :)

Now stop making excuses and get on with it...! :) :-*

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As has been said on another thread...............'what is it that makes some poetry just 'do it' for you?'

There clearly isnt an answer.

All I know is what floats my boat.......................get on wiv the epic I'm sinking!
 
Jerry, you're a BARman and can do what you like and be what you want to be. O0
But please write the epic before this BRAlot start demanding summat off me. :-\
 
An 'Anti' poem...what a brilliant concept...hmmm..
Well done Jezzie babe...you've just opened up a whole new area..
 
Why oh why have I not read any of your poems before today.
Seems I shall be up late tonight.

Robert
 
Hello Jerry - We can't all be a Shakespeare, William Blake or a John Keat's - so my defintion of a poet you are not - you are more like an Alexander Pope or a John Betjeman - great verse writers so what is wrong with that???????? Ansolutely nothing!!!!!!

Beryl M
 
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