fact or fiction
Is it fact or merely fiction? Fact or Fiction explores the myths and beliefs we hold about what makes a good poem and the poetry rules that were made to be broken.
Drowning in Dreams
The movie Inception never made much sense to me, where exploring a dream within a dream called in various professional geniuses, adventure, and mind excavation. I think I learned about the idea better from Edgar Allan Poe, specifically, from his poem ‘A Dream Within A Dream’. So many times I’ve read it that I could recite it at whim; any poem remembered verbatim yields tighter kinship with its cadence. I interspersed with its rhythms immediately, realizing it’s full of open-ended meanings despite a close-ended question concluding the poem: “Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?” First instinct, my mind says no, except I adore the room for theory which opens at the sound of yes.
By Christian Lee4 years ago in Poets
The birth of the Scales
There weren't always dragons in the Valley. My experience equals ions and trillions of galaxies. Family seems to matter to me. The color they choose is their own. Their beliefs doesn’t matter to me. They are harmed their world will end in tragedy. The attempts failed time after time. They wonder why. I am the scale of life the repair that roams in the light. The ghost rider the enforcer of good and evil. Looking in your eyes I see you soul. Cause harm I’ll send love and a healing heart your way.
By Tony randle4 years ago in Poets
Dear mother dearest.
Dear mom, I have been angry at you for a long time. My anger stems from being taken away from you, and remembering how mean you can get. It hurt my feelings when you screamed at me that you wish you never birthed me and you felt like I was a mistake and got on your nerves. I am sorry that you feel that way. There was a significant reason why I prayed to my higher power at five years of age and never was exposed to religion at the time or there being such thing as the higher power. I am hurting and have been for years, and at thirty five years of age at 35 years young I am more healed than you know from just doing me, so don't you dare try to tell me how to do me, I am not a child any more.
By Angelina F. Thomas4 years ago in Poets
The Facebook Sonnet: Denying Reality, Honoring Disconnection
Sonnets, like other forms of poetry, can be about a variety of topics such as love, people, objects, and so on. Sonnets consist of fourteen lines, contain iambic pentameter, and have rhyme. It is utterly amazing how writers can write about simple things and get audiences to become engaged. When writing a sonnet, writers must be sure that they are focused on a single idea so that readers do not get lost. The Facebook Sonnet by Sherman Alexie speaks to those who use social media constantly. Facebook is used by billions and billions of people worldwide; its mission statement is “to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.” However, over the years, Facebook has been utilized in ways that are unhealthy. Through the use of irony and rhyme, The Facebook Sonnet gives people the reality of what social media truly represents, which is that Facebook is viewed as this sacred place people can go to for anything that they are dealing with in their lives.
By Diani Alvarenga4 years ago in Poets
