Donations are essential to keep Write Out Loud going    

Jump to most recent response

WHAT IS POETRY TO YOU!

Many finds it difficult to define poetry!
So in your sense, what is poetry to you?
Tue, 22 Sep 2020 09:18 am
message box arrow
An aid to memory. An experiment into more advanced modes of being. Chronotope turned euchronia. The esemplastic fled away with the quadlibetical. The Transforming Agent of Change. Ostranenie of dull perception. Intelligence distilled into truth.
Mon, 5 Oct 2020 08:21 pm
message box arrow
It's the way I feel about something, or an experience I have had or something I have noticed.
It's a move of the Spirit that brings me to need to say something.
It's a weeping or dying on the page.
Poetry lets me get it out in a way that doesn't require sources, or proof, or explanation. It just is.
Mon, 15 Nov 2021 03:31 pm
message box arrow
Poetry to me is like a moments capture in our heads and express in words thoughts our hearts
Wed, 22 Dec 2021 10:39 pm
message box arrow
Is like painting....try to fix a life moment in its total intensity
Sun, 6 Feb 2022 05:46 pm
message box arrow
From our minds there are disembodied words that coalesce into perceptible forms, among them - poetry, which in comparison to other forms of articulation allow us a licence to fashion an experience of language in the stretching of its features, techniques and devices - as in a dance or a painting or other visual art and motion.
Fri, 3 Jun 2022 07:24 am
message box arrow
It’s born of the ethers, the world of spirit.
Fri, 16 Dec 2022 01:28 am
message box arrow
Poetry is myself talking to myself. I always feel better (happy) after I write a poem. When the poem is shared, & someone else feels its energy, I am doubly happy.
Fri, 16 Dec 2022 04:26 am
message box arrow
Poetry is patterns.
Patterns of thought,
reflected in
sound,
speech,
or song,
or text,
It's patterns of meanings, expressed or understood.
Humans evolved to recognise patterns.
Their recognition, and the way we respond to them is essential (certainly to our physical survival)
and possibly to our mental health?
Fri, 16 Dec 2022 09:42 am
message box arrow
for me poetry is a song without music or story with a flowing rhythm.
Poets ( I believe) belong to a long and ancient line of bards and storytellers. We allow our inherited insticts to speak. Think about it, how many of us decided for ouselves that we would be poets? it is something that happens to us unannounced.

Words arrive in bundles
then seperate spread
out of my control.
They lead - and I am led
into their parallel world
that I can show
but never tell.
Where restrictive barriers are broken,
no devisive languages are spoken,
and yet we touch
and in turn are touched.
Words arrive in bundles
and manipulate my thoughts
but they are welcome.
Fri, 16 Dec 2022 10:15 am
message box arrow
Wow! I didn’t know it was this hard.
Fri, 16 Dec 2022 11:44 am
message box arrow
Poetry?
Me in motion? = granddad dancing.
Me on the page = granddad romancing-a veritable man of letters might I add.

In the spirit of the above posts, may I wish each and every one (be ye arseholes or not) a good-humour filled Christmas-or as Father Jack would say: FECK-DRINK!
Fri, 16 Dec 2022 12:53 pm
message box arrow
Poetry is about romancing in isolation. The thoughts that flow whilst all are calm and peaceful, born out of memories from when the world was rumbustious.
Making sense of my emotions, my prejudices, and whateverists and preconceptions.
Most of all, it is the humour in playing with words, thinking of a word and writing a verse, and then feeling really smug.
Poetry is my life. It's my solitude, it's all my hopes and all my dreams.
Sat, 14 Jan 2023 10:50 am
message box arrow
Poetry is :
waves rolling onto the seashore,
trees bending in a breeze,
tall grass in a field showing the shape of the wind as it passes,
the deep warm tones of a Lancashire accent,
the joyous glugging of a nice wine on its release from the bottle,
the happy chatter of little children in the playground just up the street,

Thee on' me writing about stuff like that.

Blimey has it taken us 2 yrs to arrive at this conclusion!
Sat, 14 Jan 2023 12:53 pm
message box arrow
Uilleam
I've been here but just a heartbeat, the previous 2 years minus 1 heartbeat I am oblivious to, that's poetry for you, seeing yourself in just one verse but not in the whole narrative of the epic
Sat, 14 Jan 2023 02:44 pm
message box arrow
Poetry is painting with words. Art and artifice, bringing to our
attention that which may have been previously unconsidered.
Sat, 14 Jan 2023 04:36 pm
message box arrow
OOPS-have I been misunderstood?

I did NOT mean that the following is a piece of poetry!

"....waves rolling onto the seashore,
trees bending in a breeze,
tall grass in a field showing the shape of the wind as it passes,
the deep warm tones of a Lancashire accent,
the joyous glugging of a nice wine on its release from the bottle,
the happy chatter of little children in the playground just up the street,.."

My joke:
"Blimey has it taken us 2 yrs to arrive at this conclusion!"
was simply that, merely a reference to the date of the first post on this subject!
😧
Sun, 15 Jan 2023 06:53 pm
message box arrow
oh, hadn't even looked back to the first post on this thread! 😃
Mon, 16 Jan 2023 12:46 am
message box arrow
That, Frederick is, I suppose, typical of internet communications these days.😉
Mon, 16 Jan 2023 08:04 am
message box arrow

This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

Find out more Hide this message