Poetic Retraction

Shall I take back all my poetic injustice

does it not fit in your realm of meter and tack

my rhythm seeks that of a different drummer

another lover of a different color perhaps

is it not presumptuous to say it has not merit

my madness grants me permission to steer

words convoluted and distortion, beware

when all is said and done, no one has won

words are words that affect one another

be they warm, or square, they sit and despair

what will people think of me, naked and abject

stir them in a pot of reality with wretched added

or add sweet kisses and adulation for all to see

cheap, vulgar, saccharin, or beguiling illusions

they're all the delusions of the poets alchemy

Reviews

[LA Lorena]

poetry means many different things to everyone. I have found for myself, that the only way to write is to write to express myself, and to hell with what anyone else thinks of it. There are enough restrictions, rules and constraints in real life...this is my imaginary world, and the only rules are of my own choosing, and the only one who needs pleasing is me. Poetry??? Make of it what you need and want it to be.

[Frieda P]

Hear Hear

[critic h]

nycly written.

[Carolann Dowsett]

Yes! Excellent. Let poetry be a free expression of our hearts and souls, without restrictions or judgements. It is what it is so lets, let it be.

[MOON]

Love this write, when I started here in March 2012 I thought poetry equals rhyme, I did not have a clue of metre , stressed and unstressed in fact the whole stress thing is enough to make me see a psychiatrist. I can't seem to break the habit of rhyme and a few have told me they dislike it. To each his own I say. I am a work in progress in life and so too in poetry. Now that I know there are rules to poetry I am trying . I have to know rules in order to break them . I am funny like that. I don't really care either way as long as the words speak to me. Lovely as usual Frieda.

[Tarry Franck]

Love, Love, Love it :))))))

[Claire Twinn]

It's wonderful when people love what you write, but you can't please all the people all the time!

[Frieda P]

That's what they tell me ;-) thanks Claire!

[Baby Ricochet]

Oh just flip your critics the bird

[Frieda P]

Now why didn't I think of that?

[Lily Mae]

I'm sorry take this with a dose of Lily... but the poetry police and the grammar police and the rules police all well suck.. Poetry comes from the heart and soul..the places where joy is born and our dark shadows linger in acid waiting to impale with their ink.. That's the true meter..that's the true essence of poetry.. S**t when I started this I didn't even know what a stanza was or a meter and I honestly don't care and sometimes my to's are too's and vise versa.. lol I'm wicked I know and daring but I do it.. because I'm writing imperfectly for others and yet perfectly for ME... xo I love your raw honesty and they way you say what you feel. I have no idea on who did what and don't need to know but I read your work because of the "you" that your words bare. You share yourself with me..
That's alot of Lily.. sorry.. be at peace and do what you do..xo

[Annabelle Lee]

Words are words, sometimes when they're combined, they excite feelings in people. whether good or bad. But never let an a******s feelings keep you from writing.