Comments on "Explorer" and "Feelings"

Explorer

I shall search for that special one

for writing is too slow

consider any age range that is not too low

without any more ado

I shall surf the net

and ignore the fact I have lit a cigarette

I shall posts pictures on facebook

and twitter in between

learn very fast those chatting rules

sitting on the computer stroking those keys

holding down the mouse

chatting with laughter and tease

Posting my profile forms part of my plan

on my to do list

hoping my hobby brings me a man

that pens his thoughts in prose

with a watermark rose.

July 2012

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Feelings

To me you are so special ...     tossing toffeesmiles doolight my star;

            important... you make me feel        thinking of you

keeps me smiling – He-he!

because of the joys we are sharing...

Gr-r-r – Yesterday I was sad – but, but

your email today makes me very glad

Gee wiz!

our plans for this yuletide season        send thrills

                                                                                     down my spine

thinking of that chalet

                        down-under

                                                and a la carte...holy grill...

Hmm –   oceans keeping us apart

Gr-r-r– so what a lonely soul

 must do          with loneliness soliloquy

                        B-r-r – ponders miserably...you not here

ivyvines of love            threading

                        our hearts

                                     soul so enmeshed

                                                            with starlights...zzzz

(July 2012)

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The poems “Feelings” and “Explorer fall under the genre of a soliloquy. In a poem whereby one speaks to oneself is called a soliloquy. The poetic soliloquy gives the illusion of unspoken reflections. These two poems have open structures and therefore fall under the category of Free Verse another term for Open Form. Poems with open form structures replace formalism” with “structuralism” that allows poets to manipulate traditional patterns used in Closed Form poetry. In so doing, the poets are free to inject into their poems linguistic inventiveness, to tinker with punctuation, spelling, the use of non-verbal sounds (e.g. Gr-r-r, zzzz, hmm) and syntax in order to create their new and highly idiosyncratic means of poetic expression.

The American poet, Edward Estlin Cummings, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1844 was a genius at manipulating traditional forms of poetry as he used poems as visual objects and promoted the sheer playfulness with language. An example of his abandonment of close form styles of poems is seen in his poem, “raise the shade” shown below.

raise the shade

raise the shade
will youse dearie?
rain
wouldn't that

get yer goat but
we don't care do
we dearie we should
worry about the rain

huh
dearie?
yknow
i'm

sorry for awl the
poor girls that
gets up god
knows when every

day of their
lives
aint you,
                    oo-oo.           dearie

not so
hard dear

you're killing me

(e e cummings)