Matt Mairs's Poetry
What is poetry? What differentiates it from other forms of
written expression? Why do some of us need to write it, while others are
unwilling to even read it? My theories, of course, have to do with music
as does most of my thought on anything related to the mind. To me, poetry
is musical language. It is more about the interaction of rhythm, cadence
and time than any other kind of writing I know. My poems are not songs
simply because the music hasn't arrived yet. And it might well not before
I die, so I commit them to paper nude.
I cannot speak for any of my fellow poets, but I have
to believe that, to greater or lesser degree, anyone who creates words
on paper and calls it a poem is creating musical language. And often a
powerful poem implicitly acknowledges this, whether through onomotopeia,
rhythmic structure, rhyme patterns, some other psychological device, or
all of the above. And I strongly suspect that this is what turns off those
who do not like poetry. Language should be utilitarian, they might say,
it should be clear, concise and directed. And poetry is often none of these.
It is getting where its going without any respect for Occam`s razor, and
where it is going is not necessarily useful to anyone but the author. Of
course this is only my incredibly biased opinion. Now I will shut
the hell up and offer the poems. Oh yeah, might be some profanity somewhere...
I have yet to come up with a logical way to group these.
Settle for an illogical one: size!
haiku
last modified 12/13/00
other
lil un's last modified 4/25/03
mijim
un's last modified 4/9/03
beeg
un's last modified 4/9/03
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