Best Poetics Poems

Poetics Poem, Red River Gorge, KY

I traipse the course of a forking, rambling stream
Barefoot from the rounded top of one small boulder
To another, the slashing strikes of cold water
Startling my every careful leap, place to place,
Landing with deep, short gasps, yet wordless
In an utter joy...

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a creative impulse
on the spur 
  of the moment
with
spontaneous  
drops
to
distil 
as
a painting with words 

 an invitation 
  to stroll within
behind the veil
 share &participate
with 
  another’s mind....

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Oh
how
easy
we can hide-
life's reality
behind a curtain of fine words....

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Translation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private 7 with excerpts from “Notes on Poetics” by T. Wignesan

(Note: With this post, I bring to a close EM’s pamphlet collection: Faithful Private, GENERA editions by Colin Simms, issue 13 (Place:?), 1976, n.p. Translation of No. 6: “Courbet,...

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like the assailant's knife 
it slices, pierces 
sometimes severs an artery 
then leaves
the most beautiful 
scar...

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Aristotle's  Poetics

Epic poets quite divine in seriousness of truth's glow,
In the world’s poetic distinctions compared to history,
In “Poetics”, Aristotelian logic did clearly show,
Poetry more divinely scientific than factual glory,
Poet truths outshine history’s particular knack for gory! 

For Brian Strand Contest...

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There once was a poet named Bieter
Who, when asked how he measured his meter
Said, my rhythm's kaput
So I just use the foot
Which is about the size of my peter...

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Traveling faster than thought, down a flashing Filkish road,                                  
to an elusive...

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FREE VERSE

no stress

I guess


NOTE:A footle is a two line ,2 syllable verse with an integral title-Light Poetic verse form,witty,pertinent,topical etc (technically a trochaic monometer and not necessarily in rhyme).A 'hybrid' innovative sequenced variation has
developed over the years (since 2009)alongside the original definition...

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PLAYING POETICS
Feeling the real fun of poetry
Me never scholar of poetrix
But student of poetic living
Recording in history these poetrix.


Profaced mystic poetry
The dwarfy art of poetics
For creators of petty poesy;
My dunced trade of creativity.


Like one in art never skilled
With invisible ink painting vague artistry;-
Flowing lines of...

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Poetics Poem 5

********(Mimesis)******

Dear Aristotle, where, then, 
Do the Arts fit?  
You say each of them
Falls to mimesis, but their works, to me,
Erupt into present moments
Wearing immediate faces - not masks -
Speaking their own lyrics
Without consideration of what came
Before or will come  afterwards,
Presenting a...

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I think sometimes, 
in an effort to sell reflections 
of life,
egotistic mirrors 
break themselves 
into a million pieces.


Fractured verses,
bent and poisoned,
deformed from the ill-treatment 
of delicate lines;
echoes of poetry.



©All rights reserved. Author Marcela Villar M. 2014...

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Poetry,
  barbell of the written word

Resistance exercise 
  for the status-quo

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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One thing is sure;
a poet's competence is best expressed
by letting someone else inside his head.
Once there, the realms of heaven and hell
are opened up to shape 
the reader's dread, 
or fancy,
or delight, but best of all
to shake him, shock him,
runble, quake, until he sees
another world...

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"America will be great again" he always says
before his rallies and in the nasty tweets 
How is that, me lord? Asked his secretaries,
by fingering the Pope's palm
And receiving the counterparts from the House backdoor
with no formalities to stage or hold, 
Like stolen sheep never harbored...

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