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Ars Poetica Day 28

Poetry

In the world of verse
The possibilities are so very diverse.
Writing in a ruleset to meet the form,
Or taking the license to be
Whatever you want to be…
Poetry allows for all of these.

Probably the thing that scares away
Those who claim to hate
All that poetry has to say
Have just not found the poem
To affect them properly yet
In the right way.

* I do realize that I am posting it slightly early. I just got it written and decided that I didn’t want to take the chance of forgetting to post it.

Pad challenge Day 27

Poetry

Remind me

By Patricia Harris

I just don’t know how
to remix the words
that I wrote already
so perfectly.

Remind me that I have
a flaw or ten,
so I don’t see the writing
as perfection written.

* I am not actually sure if I do write perfectly…. but the prompt today was to remix one of our own poems. I hate remixes in general and I don’t want to do it to my own poetry. I have plans to do a revisiting poetry book but it is mostly going to be a discussion of my own poetry, not the remix.

Ars Poetica Day 27

Poetry

putting into words
the best idea for who I am
is  not always an easy thing.

picking up the pen
to write prose may be harder
than hiding behind poetry,
for in the poetry I have the ability
to express my thoughts more eloquently.

Pad challenge Day 26

Poetry

I am Human

by Patricia Harris

The best idea of who I am
is found in the mirror,
flaws showing,
Dreams weaving into a form
resembling something divine.

I am human,
with all that it might mean.
I am human,
with the whole world laid
out in front of my feet.

Ars Poetica Day 26

Splash the ink
so carelessly,
give poetry freely.

for the world deserves
the best of verse,
with no thoughts
to the what ifs and such.

poetry is another art
meant to ease the disturbed,
and so I say it should be
written with abandon
to make the world better.

Pad Challenge Day 25

Pad Challenge Day 25

Soul

By Patricia Harris

Perhaps I am mistaken

In belief that a soul is not meant

to be trampled upon.

I think that too many are thinking

of the wrong spelling of the word.

The sole of our feet are for

walking upon, Nothing within

the soul of a man

is meant to be trod upon.

*sorry I am running late.

Ars Poetica Day 25

I don’t have time
For writing poetry,
Though it’s all I want to do…

Instead I am running
Races in my own mind
Wishful for the idea
That I can write
Poetically everyday.

Pad challenge Day 24

To the Max

By Patricia Harris

Humanity has been trying
To find the best way
To maximize
Our own way to
Survive…

So often we have
Forgotten about
The idea that
We need to do more
Than just survive.

So we should live
Life to the max,
Always ready to
Ignore the same
Bull that life throws
At us.

* This is the first poem in Human Shaped Verse. The newest volume.

Ars Poetica Day 24

The words flow
To form the flower
Of poetry petals.

Though I have
Ink for a soul,
I leave petals
Of poetry
everywhere.

Pad challenge Day 23

Heart of Hope

By Patricia Harris

Stretching to the edge of insanity,
When the pressure gets to be too much,
That is where you find it…
The strength that is the heart of hope.

Courage is not being brave
Because you don’t feel fear,
It is feeling it and doing anyway.
The heart of hope is knowing
Despair and choosing
To believe in the possibility
Of what time will bring.