Poetry

I have a complicated relationship with poetry.

1. I don't think my poetry is very good. This is mostly a result of taking poetry classes full of very pompous people who had a very set idea of what poetry "is", all while they simply aped the most modern poetic conventions and trends without any understanding of why.
2. Poetry often feels like cheating to me. With a story, I have to consider the emotional impact of the situations, interactions, and conversations of the characters, and it often takes several sessions of writing to complete even a short piece of fiction (and that's before editing and rewriting). Whereas I write poetry only as an emotional explosion, and I only rarely go back to edit it after the initial session of creation. While this makes the emotional content fairly authentic, it often feels like a stop-gap to avoid having a more nuanced piece of writing. It also only really applies to my own poetry and not the poetry of others.
   
3. Most of the "poets" I've known are entirely too full of themselves. See above about the aping of conventions and trends without comprehension.

With all that said, if you are still interested in reading the egotistical scratchings that I pass off as poetry, feel free to follow the links below.

Poems

Brighid
Disintegration
My Father's Father
Requiem of Reminiscence
The Chain
The Lover

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