Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat's Best Poet Contest
From: beardedbruce - PM
Date: 25 May 04 - 08:33 AM

dianavan:

ALL poems are acceptable. I will attempt to only make comments on their poetic structure, not comment. A good critic does not have to agree with the content of a poem to like it, and see where it works.

I have posted some sonnets with content that I am sure that people do not agree with. That is fine: I ask only that verse be judged by its quality, not by opinions of content.



As for Tang, if he has heart-felt feelings about fleas, he should write about them. Poetry should reflect the thoughts, desires, and dreams of the poet....

Sonnet 24/01/02                        DCL

A sonnet is a frozen tear, a kiss,
Preserved in fourteen lines. It is a pearl
Of layered thought, a gem too bright to miss
When set on page: One blossom, to unfurl
To perfect flower. As amber, sealed soul
In timeless tomb, it can show time long past,
Or hold this instant in it's grasp. The whole
Of heart upon one single page, to last
Beyond even our dreams, it seems a sip,
Distilled to essence. Refined within mind,
Lines sing sweet song, and rhymes in patterns slip,
To weave image that leaves mere vision blind.
A single chord, to resound in one's heart:
Echo of past that might our future start.


Each form has it's own focus- but poetry is something expressed in the best way that the poet can find within him/herself.