Bam!
free verse is my heart’s elation
stiff forms and rhyme make me depressed
my muse balks at forced creation
imagination dims repressed
I’m feeling empty null distressed
when bam a true epiphany
to meet this task I’ll do my best
to write my angst as poetry
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rob kistner © 2012
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Perfect, brilliant, clever – what more can I say?
Anna :o]
Awesome. 🙂
Well for someone who doesn’t like forms – you found more than elation you seem to have freed yourself completely. This is as personal as free verse, as personable as free verse, and as exacting to strict form as is called for. Task accomplished — admirably!
Thank you Gay, and everyone who visited to comment. Regarding my position on form and rhyme — I can write with these parameters, I am clever enough. It can be fun at times, like doing a puzzle. But it does not fulfill my need to plumb the depths of my being, to get down into those dark corners of my soul and find what’s lurking there. It’s not the raw emotion I seek. It’s this digging down into the ‘unknown’, where it’s not safe, that really stirs and moves me. It’s free verse that makes my spirit soar, just like when I create a piece of my art, or design an object that reflects a personal vision I hold. For me, I prefer giving birth to my art and design over assembling a clever puzzle.
Smiling here! A poetic rebellion so beautifully crafted!
haha i feel you man…form is not my friend…this one though, i enjoyed…even if i broke it a bit…smiles.
See? How could that be better? Some of my favorite pieces rose from the ashes of “I can’t! I won’t!”
I feel the same way sometimes! Well done!