What is Poetry?
by Mark Olynyk
poetry is like a fish
trying to break the surface
of the conscious.
poetry is the language
of the primitive
speaking in tongues.
a poetic philosophy
is a belief in illusion
and the power of poems.
he had a history of poetry
like an affliction
or a virtue.
a society for the preservation
of poetry will show
how history was made.
engaged in poetics
the science of truth.
a poem is a puzzle
without pieces.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- My arm for a pillow by Yosa Buson
- Михаил Лермонтов – Баллада (В избушке позднею порою)
- Electra On Azalea Path by Sylvia Plath
- Long For This World by Sophie Hannah
- Another Song Of A Fool by William Butler Yeats
- On The Same Occasion by William Wordsworth
- Sonnet Iii
- The Second Voyage by Rudyard Kipling
- Après le Bain by William Carlos Williams
- A City Remembered by Vernon Scannell
- Nikolai Gumilev –
- Song Of The Devoted Slave
- Sonnet 152: In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn by William Shakespeare
- Summer Wind by William Cullen Bryant
- Camps of Green. by Walt Whitman
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
