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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. ~~Robert Frost
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ~~Plato
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. ~~Carl Sandburg
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. ~~David Carradine
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I breathe poetry
not yet written.
Cut me--
a poem
will splash upon the page
as I bleed ink.
Hi! I'm Fyn and poetry has been a passion of mine for as long as I can remember. Given I'll be turning sixty in a month or so, that's a long time. I write poetry.I read poetry. I teach poetry. All the time. New, old, classic, renown, undiscovered. Free verse, styled, forms, rhyming or not. Short, long or epic. It doesn't matter to me. What does matter is that it communicates thoughts in a way that is new or fresh, that it gives me a lens through which I may gaze upon an idea from a new perspective. What matters is that I gain insight into another's viewpoint, feel an emotion in another's skin, am allowed to take a step or three in their footprints and walk away richer for the experience.
Poetry is about taking a moment, an emotion, a feeling, an insight, a movement or a heartbeat and expressing it in a way to communicate the very essence of all that makes it what it is. Whether a raindrop poised on the edge of a blade of grass or the entire flood raging down a gully, whether it is of that moment your heart cracks open splashing emotion on the walls like splattered blood or exploding rainbows or if it be that split nanosecond when you saw deeper, wider, more completely than ever before, the words chosen to communicate (there's that word again!) those thoughts, feelings, expressions and emotions are the essence of what takes words to that next level; to that of sheer poetry!
To do that effectively, one becomes a wordsmith. One must play with words like a child plays with a beloved toy. One (Yes, I'm old-school) must wear pencils down to the barest nub, wear out countless erasers and fill teetering piles of journals with both words chosen and not. The un-chosen words wait, breathlessly, until the time comes when they, too, fit in just the right way to become. Poems often flow from us, spilling their guts upon the page, but more often, they need to be pulled, kicking and screaming from the cobwebbed corners of our hearts or from the deepest depths of the old trunk in the attics of our brain.
Storm clouds are more than puffy, gray thunderheads....roiling clouds, angry thunderheads slapping an offender into submission, hurling lightning bolts to subdue blah blah blah...Geese don't merely fly in a 'V', they are flites of shaft-less arrows shot from an instinctual bow. Metaphors are to poetry what meat and vegetables are to soup. I am always going on about observing the life that spins around us day by day. Why? Because poetry is the essence of life and as writers, we must also be observers of everything from the human condition to the weather to the old man's crinkly-eyed smile. Observation and description are what let the words dance off the page and into the reader's mind and heart where they will then, hopefully, simmer, grow and eventually become assimilated into the reader's world.
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Since this is my first poetry newsletter, there's no feedback to offer.
I will instead, remind you all to consider submitting your poetic works to the 2014 Writing.Com Anthology!
The deadline is April 15th!!!
Welcome to the highly anticipated 2014 Writing.Com Anthology Information page.
Due to the high number of requests from WdC members since our last Anthology, we at Wynwidyn Press have decided to do a 2014 Anthology as well! For the purposes of this book, No piece submitted may be above a 18+ rating on site. All pieces MUST be part of your portfolio and must remain there as we will be providing bitems in the anthology along with your user name so folks can find you and your work on Writing.Com!
All submissions must be accompanied by a 10,000 gp donation which will be split between Random Acts of Kindness and The Angel Army here at WdC which they then use to benefit WdC members. Nice way to give back to the community we all know and love. Don't have 10k gps? You can buy them, earn them or win them. How? Entering and winning contests, reviewing, reviewing and reviewing! One of THE best ways to enhance your own writing is to read and review the works of others!
You can enter poetry, short stories, articles or prose as long as they fit the following parameters.
Poetry is limited to 32 lines of poetry.
Prose/short story category is limited to 2200 words.
Word/line count must be provided and will be verified.
You have the option to submit as many pieces as you chose (each with a 10k donation,) but be advised, you will not have more than 2 - TWO pieces accepted for the anthology. This will allow both you a greater chance of having a piece or two accepted and a greater number of different writers to be accepted. This is NOT a vanity operation. All the pieces submitted will not be accepted. In the Anthology last year, the acceptance margin was roughly 40%. You DO NOT EVER HAVE to order copies to be included should your piece/s be accepted. We want the best of the WdC writers work to showcase! In keeping with this high level of expectation, all entries will be judged by a panel of WdC Judges.
The deadline for the 2014 WdC Anthology submissions will be April 15th, 2014 at11:59 pm WdC time!!!
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