Sting-poetry

Sting-Poetry

I have been working on my poetry in many directions. Much of my poetry cries out to me in nature, culture, and in living life as it is today, if not macabre in some. In the story form of: theme, plot and insight, and capitalizing with adjectives, and sometimes with what I call sting-particles, new and abrupt sounds to effect the reader, to draw his/or her attention. It is perhaps like a high pitched, or base instrument hitting the nerves, and can be an echo; for example—personifying the union of a consonant and vowel often times, as in the poem “A Crushed Follower.” We see in the Haiku form, here seventeen syllables to the first three lines, some pert near mute sounds, but a few with connecting sting-particles, that echo, and ring, and sting the nerves, effect the reader, sounds that will bring him or her back to the poem. I use many “e” s to get the echo effect, and connect them, i.e.: die, like, flower, crushed, head, toe, sweet, smell. And then the second two lines: like, perfume, broken and reeds. But we can use spicy and crushed and broken as sting-words, as well as die and sweet also. What words hit you the most? “…die like a crushed flower” (for me it is: die and crushed). Here in this new book I will try my best to push this concept along. And here below is the full poem “A Crushed Follower”


A Crushed Flower

I want to die like a flower—
crushed from head to toe…
How sweet I’ll smell,

like spicy perfume
amongst the broken reeds!

No: 2829 (1-11-2010)