Poetry Forum

MISTEAKS NOTED Poetry is the "emotional content of literature" deals with our reaction to events or feelings, not what is or isn't, that's the territory of prose, which is the factual, or pseudo-factual content of literature. Show some emotional reaction if you really want to be a poet friend. "The" a forbidden word. The verb "to be" forbidden (is are was were) that's prose-ish.





Beauty buried beneath

THERE'S beauty buried beneath THE place beyond THE pines

Inhale THE regrets

And breathe out THE lies

Time after time

As time goes by

THE silence IT kills

But for me I'M just fine

THERE'S beauty in THE silence

Long nights with a dream

But IT seems, I’m defeated by THE violence

“IT'S not for me, IT'S not for me”

To BE what you want

As you watch me bleed

There’s beauty in the pain

I can hear what it says

THE sounds of THE world trapped inside my head

Let IT BE, let IT BE

For what grows from THE beauty

Buried beneath