I am an opinionated, bossy, stubborn, sometimes knowitall, who, until now, never had much appreciation for poetry. I know some of the classic names; Yates, Keats, Poe, the dead dudes, but I don't really know anything about modern poetry, or classical poetry for that matter. I'll own up to it, I don't know diddley poo about poetry, but I do know, that for the first time since I was 6, I have been inspired by a poem. Shuna Fish Lydon at Eggbeater wrote an amazing poem you have to check out.
Oh and that poem that inspired me when I was 6 went a little something like; Bean beans good for your heart, the more you....
I think you know the rest.
Oh yeah as for being a knowitall, if you suspect bullshit, call me on it. There is nothing I love more than teaching, except learning.
Cheers
Chris
3 comments:
Chris,
No offense, but that poem was um... something uninspiring. But hey, we all have our opinions. Personally, I am a fan of Dickinson, Whitman, and my most favorite, Hughes. Of course, you have to be inspired by "the Bard".
Is this one inspiring:
I play it cool
And dig all jive.
That’s the reason
I stay alive.
My motto,
As I live and learn,
is:
Dig And Be Dug
In Return.
-hughes
How about:
When my love swears that she is made of truth,
I do believe her, though I know she lies,
That she might think me some untutor’d youth,
Unskilful in the world’s false forgeries,
Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although I know my years be past the best,
I smiling credit her false-speaking tongue,
Outfacing faults in love with love’s ill rest.
But wherefore says my love that she is young?
And wherefore say not I that I am old?
O, love’s best habit is a soothing tongue,
And age, in love, loves not to have years told.
Therefore, I’ll lie with love, and love with me,
Since that our faults in love thus smother’d be.
-the bard
No offense taken mrorph. I think for me, what makes a poem inspiring is that I can relate to it, make a connection with the author. I will capitulate that scholars find Shakespeare great and Langston influential, but I have a hard time connecting with both. I do like the Bard's plays though, so I am not a complete heretic.
But to reiterate, I don't know much about poetry, I just know what I like...
I don't like green peppers but I like Shuna's poem.
Cheers
Well, Chris, knowing what it is that you like is truly what is important.
I used to write some of my own when I was in college, some many moons ago. I used to place my most recent poem in front of the hottest girl of the day. More often than not, I made a new friend.
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