Went to Martin Cothran’s blog (Vere loqui) and saw a bunch of easter poems and then a link to Douglas Groothius web site, so I’m emboldened to give it a try. I’ll post a poem I wrote. But you have to promise me to critcize it and make suggestions (to which I have the right […]
Let me simplify: a poem consists of three elements to a greater degree than prose: Music Images Something I haven’t been able to name yet. Maybe I’ll call it immediacy for lack of a better term. I’m talking about that deep, mysterious connectedness that poems have because a word will carry a meaning for the
It can be a great deal easier with an accomplice. For one thing, all good poems have things you will miss the first time or the first ten times you read them. That’s why the poet wrote a poem and not prose. To caricature, a poem is extremely condensed while prose is much looser. In
