POETRY

[quintessentone]

So I thought beginning a free online university course in poetry structure and such would give me the technical that I may lack in poetry writing. Well the instructor said that each and every piece we submit will be constructively? commented on by all the other students in the course. This struck me as not a good idea because how constructive can those comments be when we are all in the same 'lack of knowledge' boat. So, I decided not to go that route.

Interestingly enough, my son's partner gave me four poetry books at our last visit because I mentioned that another uni course I was taking 'know thyself' about learning about unconscious/preconscious workings made me think that to dredge up that which I buried in those parts of me, poetry may be the way.

Anyway, I'd like to share some of the poems from these books for all to enjoy.

I just opened up the book at random and here are the first two, as there are poems on each page.

You were the sound of wandering feet
and rainfall in the trees.
We thought,
god we always thought
there would be enough
time.
I was the moss
that held the imprint of your shoe,
and I loved my indentions.

I was nothing,
but you found me.

You were everything
and I hold proud
the marks you made.

(I love that poem above)

Next poem -

You
are the poem
I never knew
How to write
and this life
is the story
I have always 
wanted
to tell.

(From: chaster of the light, poems from the typewriter series) Tyler Knott Gregson