A little bit of Ars Poetica 🙂 First published on this website in 2012, lightly edited today.
Poetry Stew
A little bit of this
and a little bit of that,
all mixed together in a poetry hat,
pull out nubile wordles
bash them all around,
organise the way they look,
smell and sound.
Stir ‘em into shape,
shake ‘em through and through,
let them have their say,
they’ll tell you what to do.
When the stew is finished,
finalised and done
then make some bread to go with it,
knead it just for fun.
Bread has connotations, solid,
formed it rises,
if the yeast is left out
there are no surprises.
Method is important
from limerick to sonnet,
free verse gives to poetry
yeast
to place upon it.
Polly Stretton © 2018
14/09/2012 at 11:39
I like the analogy – poetry is indeed like baking and cooking stews. You are inspiring me to try something less free verse… perhaps later today.
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14/09/2012 at 14:47
Brilliant, Polly! Not to mention flat out fun to read.
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14/09/2012 at 14:49
heh-heh … and don’t you think the photo of Walt Whitman gives a great example of a ‘poetry hat’? heh-heh 🙂
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14/09/2012 at 15:54
This is just how I imagine you creating your works!
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14/09/2012 at 16:28
Have you been a’spying on me, Mrs Rubin? heh-heh 😀
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14/09/2012 at 16:32
Oh…is that wrong?…
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14/09/2012 at 16:34
Nope! I rely on it 😀
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14/09/2012 at 16:04
Love your ‘stew’, Polly…so much fun to read and totally entertaining…put a smile on my face! (That “sonnet” just about killed me.) 🙂
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14/09/2012 at 16:29
Good fun, ‘eh Gayle? Nice to see it put a smile on your face, it’s keeping me entertained today too! 😀
I thought your sonnet was just beautiful.
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14/09/2012 at 16:21
Oh–I do so love this!
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14/09/2012 at 16:29
Nice of you to say so Susan 🙂
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14/09/2012 at 16:30
love the yeastiness of it…
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14/09/2012 at 16:30
Ah, one needs a bit of yeast now and again … 😀
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14/09/2012 at 21:28
A nice big pot of rhyme.
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14/09/2012 at 21:37
Heartening 🙂
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20/09/2012 at 12:38
Such a charming poem. I’d love some! k
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20/09/2012 at 12:51
mmmm … help yourself to a bowl or two k. 🙂
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24/09/2012 at 01:44
😀
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29/09/2012 at 23:46
😀
Divine 🙂
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30/09/2012 at 07:37
heh-heh … you are a one Alex 😀
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16/04/2018 at 09:26
Wow. !
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16/04/2018 at 11:24
Thanks Elaine 🙂
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06/05/2018 at 17:50
Absolutely scrumptious!
Oh Captain, my captain… Back in Sacramento we once had a reading at the old cemetery on Whitman’s birthday… It was wonderful. 🙂
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06/05/2018 at 20:55
I would so have liked to meet Walt Whitman – what a poet – I’ll bet that reading was special, so memorable. x
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07/05/2018 at 05:36
It was special. x
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