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 of intense sensation over sun-sprinkled
Spots so bright against the deep gray hollow splotches of
Drenched stone. The stream does not trickle
Along this gorge, but roars the air and throws
Its echoing roundabout the cliffs like a newborn
Learning its scream forth from being
Buried for years beneath massive storeys on up to
Greater views. But, the stream continues its carving around
The hillside. And the newly-born cries will
Find the voices of self-expression with each gasping
Leap from boulders to cliffs, climbing in a wrapabout
The gorge’s hidden, grand lowlands and rising
Of its own ineffable poetry so fully held within the birthing
Of Nature herself, all that which carries
Of language as spoken
In the heart of God.
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(C) sally Young eslinger 10/9/2020
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.
Oh
how
easy
we can hide-
life's reality
behind a curtain of fine words.
like the assailant's knife
it slices, pierces
sometimes severs an artery
then leaves
the most beautiful
scar
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
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
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 easy poesy I write always
Playing the hard game of poetics.
Hopping around on budding Pogo stick
Reciting like one dancing at midnight.
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 stage for dialogue...
Opening platforms for exchange.
The artworks begin anew each time
The audience receives impressions
Or as the works are relived repeatedly,
They may bring new strokes, viewed as
Potentially new and not, as you say,
“Imitations of imitations.”
Inspiration feeds the audience
As well as the artists, and all
Of time moves to
Impress upon the exchanges.
(C) sally Young Eslinger 2/22/20
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
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
(P)errsonal
(Opportunity
(E)xpressing
(T)he
(I)nner
(C)reativiity
(S)emantically
"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 unless they pay
I will build a great wall like the Chinese to make my name forever recalled
And banish the ******* states from the list of our subsidiaries,
non of such trash enters our White Great Abode,
And I'll do one more things all great men shrank to do
The gatherers look at each other; Oh Lord,
What's that big thing?
he winks at them; How do you want it?
A "Gentle Puff" or a "Releasing Valve"
A "Releasing Valve, me Lord" as the applause grows aloud
and all of a sudden his valve opens and his bang explodes
"I'll declare Jerusalem as the eternal capital for Jews"
The audience shouts out
Drown out the noise with a louder one:
A MAAAAZING GRAAAACE
A poem by Lateef Shareef Dhmayd
Poetry,
barbell of the written word
Resistance exercise
for the status-quo
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
RHETORIC the form
a question that needs no answer this example after Shelley's 'Wind'
O mist
If Autumn comes can Winter be far behind?
POETIC ESSENCE
a creative
impulse
on the spur
of the moment
in drops
of poetic essence
spontaneous
& prolific
from the workings
of the heart
to distil
into
another’s mind
A painting
with words
uttered
one by one
to another
an experience
of the wind &rain
of ordinary life
An
intimate invitation
to stroll within
& behind the veil,
’neath inspiration’s
triumphal arch
there
to share & participate
in the raw reality
of the creative
drive of another
A vision enhanced
by mutual
experience
of each
One thing
leads to another
translating
awareness of new
& deeper meaning
germinates
the empathy
orchestrates
the chords
as together
explore
the world
of the poetic