on Reading Walt Whitman

[Meatpuppet]

Reading Whitman in a class
"the learn'd astronomer" or some shit
just waiting to go home lke the other 15 maggots in here
ironic i find that his poem values simplicity, beauty, and asthetics of the stars
over the diagrams, charts, coldness, and harshness of a scientist
and this they teach in technology university?
I read and re-read and realize very little of what i write has no prose
very little of what i write has no setting...
and that my meter and rhyme
is sparadict as an addict
and i just write what comes to mind
that most of my writing is an exageration of emotion, ideals, and situations
stretched, chaotic, and unorganized
as a militia of freedom fighters in a rioting revolt
I rely on a nail to wrist to crucifix shock value to grab attention
crucify myself eveytime i allow someone to see inside me..
spewing FUCKING obscenties to show my GOD DAMNED conviction
similies, metaphors, and a vocabulary...
to prove my colussus intelliegence
or my mammoth insecurities and imbecile stupidity..
I don't leave people wondering..
...what...i'm ..about..to ....
...say..
and as i read this short poem one last time
I wonder if i'll be read and thought of in such a way..
its all just a pen to paper SCREAM
to get it all out today..

 

[BeinGeneric]

i'm a mad one and if you want to hear what I have to say read read read and if not don't... let yourself write. Just try it once. don't look at the screen just write and keep writing until you believe that what you've written is so good that you just can't keep yourself from looking up for a second longer and then send it and I'll read it and you'll read it, we all will and then you can see what you mean.

 

[E-girl]

please read our forum guidelines:

4) Please limit it to about three (3) new threads at a time... no one wants to open up the first page of the Words forum and have it all be poems by one person. lets share our space with others
thank you.