Category: poetic forms

Ars Poetica Day 17

Poetry is a long forgotten art
Often seen as stagnant
Except the rare ones
That understand why
Reading poetry has
Years of dreams written in short verse.

Pad challenge Day 16

Hope Splashes

By Patricia Harris

Heaven has nothing
On the exquisite
Pleasures found here
Earthbound.

So much of what
People stress over
Lingers in the mind
After it should be
Sent on its way.
Hope helps us
Enjoy the
Simplicity of life.

Ars Poetica Day 16

Define art…
With words or paint
Ink or pain…
It all comes out
As beauty on the page.

Poems are not for the poet
Art is not for the artist,
Instead both belong to
A world in need of beauty
Defined.

Ars Poetica Day 15

When the wind calls you home,
I hope you become poetry.

When you have nothing left to say,
I hope you write poetry.

When all in you has been turned
Into the noise of the world,
I hope you find poetry to quiet it again.

And child,
When you have naught else
That you can depend upon,
I hope you have poetry.

Ars Poetica Day 14

Pick up the pen,
Bleed the verse.
Try to find the best
Words again.

Perhaps repeat
The actions to find
The answer life has to give,
But each poem is different.

Ars Poetica Day 13

What is poetry for?
Poetry is to heal the broken,
Poetry is to reach the disturbed…
Poetry is to give wings
To those who are falling
Into the pits of despair.

What else is poetry for?
Poetry is to comfort those
Who are desperate
In need of a dream
In written form.

Poetry is to let
Those who have
Suffered know that
They are not alone
In this world.

Ars Poetica Day 11

How many ways
Can I write about
Poetry?

Holding my heart
Out on my sleeve,
My pen has more
Poetry to bleed.

Ars Poetica Day 10

When is the poem
More form than thought?
Complicated rules
To dictate the way that
Words are written on the page.

The poet’s soul
Should not be limited
By the meter and the rhyme.
Writing poetry is
Freely bleeding on the page,
And choosing rules
Part of the time.

Ars Poetica Day 9

Tears of ink
In poetry form,
Cried until the poet
No longer has tears left
With which to write.

Then what should the poet do?
Pluck out the heart and
Serve it dry?

Ars Poetica Day 7

If writing poetry
Was all that I could do
Perhaps I would find
That I would find
Moments of bliss
Written in the verse.

Achieving happiness is often
So much of a wishful thinking
That when we stop to try
We often forget to do
What is needed to be done.

I think that for me
Writing verse
Might be the way
To find the happiness
I seek.