Dangling Short-Lines Over Water-Falls
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The last step of Poetry Soup's Guide:
'How to Write a Poem - 10 Steps to Writing Great Poetry'
10. Read It Aloud.
“Some poems look like they fell down a flight of stairs, one word per step at a time.” - Attributed to Billy Collins
“Poetry should not require snakes and ladders to read and follow the syntax.” - Author
Early poems were almost always read aloud or performed, and in many cases, they were not written down at all. Poetry began as an oral tradition.
Oh, dear reader
of short-line
poems,
are you, like me,
short of breath?
Have you tried
to read
my short-shift stuff,
with ever so
short-lines,
Aloud?
It's sad to say
it sounds
a tad choppy!
Like it's,
ridin' on
bobbin' seas,
sailing into
a head-wind
over the air-ways.
It rollicks along
with carriage returns,
unwinding,
flowing freely
from margins
set tight,
to waterfall.
Sad to say,
I'm done with it!
For me personally,
a poem
is just a thought,
a heady
daydream fling,
until its read,
Out-Loud!
Copyright © John Anderson | Year Posted 2025
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