What is Poetry? And who is A True Poet?
The Dictionary says: poetry, it is literature in metrical form. So if I do a sonnet and do it according to form, I’m a poet? Correct? Well, that is what the dictionary is implying, so I feel. I think it’s a little more than that. I think one need to take a step further out onto the dock, look down into the waters below, and feel your pulse increasing, that is poetry. Let me explain it a different way. Poetry is not about poetical talents or skill or meter per se, it can’t be, it’s too superficial, it can’t simply be about men in general either, it’s bigger than that, more involved than that. Poetry is of the true Poet—the one who can evoke the emotions inside of you—that is poetry and that is a poet. Take an audience and change them; produce an effect inside of them, with his poem, perhaps his verbal reading, expressions. That is poetry, and that is the poet, they are one, called: the True Poet.
Dennis L. Siluk July 11, 2011
The Dictionary says: poetry, it is literature in metrical form. So if I do a sonnet and do it according to form, I’m a poet? Correct? Well, that is what the dictionary is implying, so I feel. I think it’s a little more than that. I think one need to take a step further out onto the dock, look down into the waters below, and feel your pulse increasing, that is poetry. Let me explain it a different way. Poetry is not about poetical talents or skill or meter per se, it can’t be, it’s too superficial, it can’t simply be about men in general either, it’s bigger than that, more involved than that. Poetry is of the true Poet—the one who can evoke the emotions inside of you—that is poetry and that is a poet. Take an audience and change them; produce an effect inside of them, with his poem, perhaps his verbal reading, expressions. That is poetry, and that is the poet, they are one, called: the True Poet.
Dennis L. Siluk July 11, 2011
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