Poetry Is Not Perfection It Is Inspiration
Poetry is somewhat unique in that your mind blends an object, person or thing. You become one and then you create an image through your words, each poet is different otherwise all poems would be the same. It is impossible to copy another poet and their thought’s, as an example. When I write about trees I feel them swaying in the wind or birds landing on their branches, I feel the many rings around them teaching us their age, I feel their leaves falling in the fall even those leaves that eventual go back into the earth.
Poetry is an expression of you life and the things you have seen and experienced so no one can copy those thought’s and feelings, yes poems can be counterfeited and maybe change a few words around but those thought’s and feelings will always belong to you. To many try to have the perfect poem they work and work to make it perfect and it maybe be perfect in their eyes but to others they don’t always see what you see. When I write poetry I just write and a lot of times my words get mixed up even today, I wrote a poem with the word seen in it thanks to one of my poet peeps she caught it and soup mailed me it was suppose to be spelled scene and not seen.
I don’t check my work that carefully I just write and then post it, why you may ask I write for me and not others, I write from my heart and I never think in my mind I hope people like this. It gives me freedom in writing and my muse can go crazy, when you write poetry to please other people you are not writing poetry you are just putting down random thought’s thinking, I hope people like this. If you like it that’s all that matters that my friend’s is, freedom in poetry. At lot of the Judges in contest look for perfection in your poetry, they may as well put my muse on trial for he or she is a sneaky little burger and doesn’t like playing by man’s rules.
The last contest That I sponsored was Acrostic and trust me I do know what an Acrostic poem should look like, I read one poem that had such beauty it should have been 1st place but because it wasn’t Acrostic I had to follow the rules and give it an N/A. I do understand about some of the rules in contest but, when someone has such a talent is given a N/A because it wasn’t the correct form gets to me.
Poetry is not perfection it is inspiration
Copyright © Bobby May | Year Posted 2019
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