Poetry is easy:
Write something, but make it about something else.
Poetry is easy:
Write something, but make it about exactly that.
Poetry is
Easy:
Write space white like paint in a can
(She always said: Happiness Writes White)
Shake
Poetry
Is easy: just write hard. Thought the cry out
Mix and jumble and Capitalize the important stuff
(Andmakeitallimportant). Periods like tears, commas like staggered breathing,
And make that one line way longer
Because, damn, how could it not?
Kintsugi (taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi)
I like poetry. For me it is the art of putting broken words together, fixed. Kintsugi for the jumbled thoughts that exist without rule or border, where people try, fight, celebrate, and debase themselves to make sense. I don’t like a lot of poetry, despite my Twitter account constantly liking things I read. I moreso like the act of trying to create; I read words sometimes, and see the process the writer went through to make it just so. Poetry is an extreme example, and not a monolithic “one example,” as it is myriad.
Most poets I read try and put a puzzle together, where the process is clear they see the work as a puzzle: how do I make this impactful? Drawing up all the possibilities, all the -sauri meowling around in their heads like living creatures, conjuring words that yes, yes fit. In seeing the work as a puzzle, as a here fits there fits this word isn’t working, the writer is removed of a certain pace, or rhythm, or movement. A professor’s words come to mind when I write this: “Never use the word ‘Flow’ when critiquing another’s work! There’s no such thing as flow!” I laughed so hard.
Modern Fantastic 