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Poets delight

admin — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:04:01 +0000

Poetry is to the mind what spices are to a curry. That is the opinion of a very interesting and wise writer called Miguel. Now if you do not have much interest in poetry then you may not understand the joy and enrichment that it can bring to your life, but for many who are aware of this, life without poetry would be the same as a curry without spices; dull and boring.

Poetry can bring delight and meaning to a friendship or partnership, and it can be used as a tool to vent emotion and feelings. The true joy of poetry is that it can be practiced by anyone at anytime and in anyplace. There is often a misconception that in order to write poetry, you need to be well versed in the knowledge of poets of times gone by, and be of a certain standard of writing. This is not necessarily the case, as great poetry is from the heart and it is the meaning and feelings behind the words that are the important thing, not the structure or stylized layout that makes it meaningful.

Obviously the more you learn about form or structure, and the more you read poetry, the better you will be able to express yourself and put down your thoughts and feelings, but this is not what makes a poem or a poet special, it is the feelings and thoughts that drive the words. The subject of a poem can be anything the poet wishes, and some of the most popular poems in the world are about seemingly mundane things. A great poet could write an amazing poem about small franking machines if they so wished and it could be magnificent. If you are reading this and you have not written much poetry before, or think that you can’t, then why not just give it a go. All you have to do is chose a subject that you feel passionately about, and express your feelings. Nobody has to see it or even know about it unless you so wish, so you do not have to be embarrassed.

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What motivates me to write poems

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:03:16 +0000

I am not a published poet, but I am very sure that I am a poet. I have been writing poems all my life. I think it started during my childhood years when I was really attracted to the poems of John Keats and William Wordsworth. The poems I like normally have a sad note to them and I am not sure why, but I normally write poems when I am depressed and want to blurt out my frustrations.

I am teacher in a primary school, so most of my time is consumed teaching and taking care of beautiful kids. I really love my job, but at times I find myself completely worn out due to the high energy levels of the kids in my class. This is when I plan to take a leave, not for going out and having fun, but just to stay at home and be quiet and read some poems. Silence can be so soothing that you start craving for it after you spend days and days hearing the screaming of little kids. Well, instead of getting a leave I was called in for some absolutely unnecessary inschool staff training. When I came to know that I would have to show up on the day I planned for an off, I felt completely frustrated.

Frustration is normally followed by depression and in my case depression is normally followed by writing poems. Well that is exactly what I did, when I came back from the training. I had a glass of wine, played some soft music and started typing. I think I wrote nearly five that evening, once I was done all the frustration and depression was gone. I was all ready to watch stand up comedy on Youtube. Well that’s how I write poems, maybe some day I will publish them and then you will also know what I wrote that evening.

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Slam Poetry: Bringing Words to Life

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:29:55 +0000

I have always thought of poetry as being a written art, beautiful and timeless, yet in a way quite static. Recently however, a friend introduced me to the art of slam poetry and I immediately felt a renewed sense of passion for the art. Slam poetry is basically an oral poetry competition. The competitors each read out their poems to a live audience and are then judged not only on the content of their work, but also the delivery of their performance.

Slam poetry is refreshingly modern as a large part of its intrigue comes from the pointedness of its topics. More often then not, the poets have a strong message to deliver or some kind of social commentary to convey. While the topics of slam poetry are infinite, I find they usually reflect something their author is truly passionate about. You will hardly find a slam poet writing about their favourite backgammon sets or flavour of iced tea. Instead they explore such topics as gender inequalities, politics and current events.

A great example of modern slam poetry is Talyor Mali’s “What Teachers Make.” To understand the power of his work, one cannot simply read it from a book, but must instead view it either live or via video. This is due to the power of his performance. In “What Teachers Make” Mali moves, pauses and changes his volume and tone. By doing this he is able to draw the audience into the story he tells about the value in his own work.

Luckily today, with the popularity of YouTube and other video websites poets and laypeople alike can enjoy the excitement of slam poetry. Of course attending a live competition is even more amazing and has an atmosphere like no other kind of event I have been to. While there will always be a place in my heart for traditional written poetry, slam poetry has inspired me to delve into the art anew.

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Classics Decay

admin — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:50:09 +0000

I remember my days at school and the English literature classes. During those times I can hardly imagine a student ignoring this subject simply because school system was vesting so much of importance into carefully going through classic English poetry represented by poets that have fascinated and keep influencing the whole literature world - names such as Byron, Shakespeare, Blake and so on. However, one can easily observe a change in the social attitude towards learning more about the English literature - young people are getting less and less interested in this particular subject and the English classic poetry is somehow in a state of a serious decay.

The educational system nowadays is more focused on providing practical and theoretical knowledge to students on a particular sphere of their interest thus depriving them from the focus on the common knowledge that was quite usual for the decades prior to the beginning of the 21st century. Thus, if someone is interested in interoffice furniture design, would simply go through English literature during his basic education and would never deeply observe the vast areas of English literature in his following years in school.

Additionally, I clearly remember the efforts of schools and government to make students more interested in the classics when it comes to poetry. There were largely advertised competitions on literature and literature analysis, there were special events organized and focused exactly on exploring the classical poetic heritage of England. Nowadays, computer and IT competitions, smartphone design contests, software development programs and practical engineering competitions are replacing the literature events that were once quite popular.

And we are not saying focus solely on literature. However, the modern day generations would be slowly losing the touch to the romantic and beautiful English history without the works of some of the most brilliant and interesting poets of all times.

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Keys To Writing Good Poems

admin — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 03:03:04 +0000

There is a poet in everyone. Most of us just don’t know it yet! Writing poems doesn’t require as much skill as many would assume. Almost anyone can write a poem.

Now if you are going to write a poem in English then ensure you’re your skills are up to par. So if you need to do an English course uk, then do so.

People who want to know how to write good poems miss out one extremely common thing at the outset – paying attention to the simple things around them. All great poets gain their reputation by viewing the seemingly simple things in life in an original way. So if you want to become a great poet, take a good look at the little and big things surrounding you. Learn to view people in more ways than one. Look at the animals, buildings or events, etc.

Try to sense things that you view, feel, hear, taste or smell. We hear words and sounds around us that we hardly pay attention to. But a poet hears with a searing and romantic heart. To your wonder you will discover that all words and sounds have a color and smell of their own.

Reading various kinds of poetry will enrich your comprehension too. Develop a taste or liking for a few genres of poems. Read modern, medieval and old-fashioned poems. You can unleash the poet inside you by reading aloud whatever you write. Try to understand how it sounds. Try to figure out ways to improve the words, sentences and metaphor.

If you want to write good poems, welcome criticism and learn from it. But don’t live and die by it.

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What would gave happened if poetry had never been invented?

admin — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:04:29 +0000

That’s a good question. In a world where literature is king and communication is so important – no, make that vital – it’s difficult to imagine poetry not being around. But if that had been the case, I suppose it might have gone something like this…

To start with, there would have been no rhyming. That would have meant that at primary schools across the world, a great deal of fun would have been missed out on. This lack of rhyming would have meant that by the time secondary school came around, words would have been quite dead. No poems, no romance…no great verses etched into the minds of our youth. This would have led to adults with no idea of what power rhyming words could have on people. It would have meant generations of adults lacking a certain something – how sad that would have been!

Another sad aspect of poems never existing would have been the lack of people laughing while inventing stupid and nonsensical rhyming slang. This would have made growing up very, very different. In other words, it would have made the entire world completely different from how it is today. Different in a bad way, to.

we should be encouraging the young to develop their poetry skills at every opportunity

Another horrifying thing I must face up to as I write this here is the fact that people would have lacked a great form of self-expression. They’d have had no way to put messages across in a fun and inspiring way. In short, it would have meant that people wouldn’t have ended up as people as we now know them.

And that, my friends out there, is why we should all be so grateful that poetry is in existence. It’s why we should be encouraging the young to develop their poetry skills at every opportunity. Because the more they develop their poetic skills, the better they will be able to communicate with people.

I for one happen to think that’s a pretty fantastic thing!

Not everyone is of the same opinion, of course. For example, for some strange reason I got talking about this new world with a girl from it support london last week. She just went very quiet on the phone and said nothing about it. I said again, “have you ever tried poetry?” and to this she replied, “I hate to admit this but I don’t think I have ever heard one…”

I told her not to worry. I always like a good reason to spout some of my own poetry, and so I began…

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He / She?

admin — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:17:05 +0000

The sign on the wall as we passed the supermarket said hybrid cars uk and that, right there, as I processed this information, is when the poem died in the seat behind me.

I felt like I wanted to cry: the mother who sat next to the boy had just taken his book of poems away from him. His hand-written book of poems. And afterwards she had said, “you don’t need stupid poems. Poems are for girls.”

And then it struck me, again: how far away we are from showing the poem in a natural good light. Not one of femininity but one of neutrality and power.

When I was a boy I remember – and remember it vividly – my Grandfather reciting some poetry to me. He had grown up with poetry and loved it, and these short verses we exchanged were our little secret that mum and dad could not touch.

But when Granddad passed away his poems left too. After that I couldn’t help but feel that the world was busy moving on. Busy and too busy and not bothered about upholding the traditions of the ages anymore. In short, the poetry had been killed off by modern technology and told to banish itself from the consciousness of a generation. Or two.

Back when Granddad was young, poems didn’t have a ’sex’. They were what they were – beautiful passages of communication on a page. Poems were something you did because you had something to say, a message to get out, a love to spread as far and wide as the written word could travel. But now things are different. Communication is fast, effortless and trivialised to a few mere characters which are supposed to represent so much more. The youth of today think that if something has emotional value attached to it then it is irrelevant or pathetic. They think of it as a sign of weakness. They think of it as something they don’t want near them, less it infects them with negativity. They call it things like ‘emo'and ‘rubbish'and worst of all ‘gay’.

I’ll never give up reading my poems, and if I ever see a mother tear the love and passion out of a child’s hand again then who knows, I may just have to say something.

It may not be politically correct but sometimes right is right and that’s the only route to go down.

The youth of today think that if something has emotional value attached to it then it is irrelevant or pathetic

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Some thoughts about writing

admin — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 05:33:06 +0000

I don’t really know why but sometimes it is so much easier for me to express what and how I fell in words. Maybe it is because you say something and you can actually see what you have just said. It also feels like your words are actually leaving a mark and not just disappearing with the wind. Yes, I know of poets who can barely talk, but write beautifully. Back in the days, when poets and novel writers used to write on paper with ink, using only a small candle to light up their desk, the magic was even bigger. Yes, today all this technology makes writing faster and it is also easier to edit the text, but something is missing. I personally prefer to write on a piece of paper. Not only because I love the smell of it, and even the specific noise the pen makes when it touches the paper, but because it feels more real.Too bad that almost everything we write today is in electronic form. Why this technology, why this over complication? Do we really want to live our lives surrounded by machines, and what is even worse - to be dependent on them? The best family car of today has more technology that the first space ship. Is this the future? A well known fact is that a modern 21st century newspaper contains more information that the average 18th century man would normally comprehend in his entire lifetime. Are our brains ready to take and process all this information? What will happen when they actually fill to the maximum? I don’t know and I don’t want to know.

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Poetry explained

admin — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:04:50 +0000

I’ve had it up to here (imagine someone holding their hand way above their head, then climbing some stairs just to illustrate how up to here they have had it). With people moaning about poetry, I mean. Wherever I go and whatever I do, there is someone ready to attack poets. Well, if you’re someone who has stumbled onto this site for a good laugh and a mock, you can leave it out! Because now I’m going to explain to you why poetry is great and special and anything but a waste of time.

1) Poetry is special because it’s where hopes and dreams are made: it may sound like a cliché, but it’s the truth. In the best poems, emotions and feelings are brought to life in a way that resonates with millions of people. They bond and they unify. Quite simply, poems help us make sense of our own existence in a way that other literature can not.

2) Poetry is accessible to all: anyone, no matter what language or how they write. You could say the same of novels, of course, but the difference with poetry is that you don’t always need to understand the language perfectly to appreciate it’s raw, powerful beauty.

3) Books of poetry are generally thinner and lighter, and this means that they are easily carried around to wherever it is you are going.

4) The last great point is that a poem can be about anything. Fur Fabrics , cars, swimming – you name it. This means that there is a massive amount of choice in poetry, which in turn means that you’re bound to find something you can really get into.

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Must Rhyme

admin — Sat, 28 May 2011 14:33:05 +0000

Jimmie Mcd won’t speak to me that is a rhyme so this is a poem I can’t get it support london to make an ex husband answer his emails I want to tell him about robin, about the baby that came into the world, I want to call and tell him that Garnet Rogers is god and that I still dream of the Northwest Passage we all dream of the Northwest Passage and atlantis, they say that people who have moon tattoos are inhabitants that have all reincarnated together, when we meet we stare at each others moon tattoos and think that this was a wonderful sign, when our love is dying, we are driving down the coast road in New Hampshire and my heart says to him that we have no choices about what we learn in this life our only choice is whether we learn it in pain or in sorrowI don’t know what he has learnt, I imagine he is probably happy and self obsessed and has left me to bear the scars of our tragedy to wander the ghosts of moon lit nights and coral reefs and angels who lost their wingsIf there is reason then there is rhyme, life is suffering I tell my husband, maybe existence is like parenting in the toddler years where all you do is try to find things to fill your time, none of them with purposenone of them with purposewe all imagine that life is something far more importantthan it actually is

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