Friday, April 7, 2023

What Makes a Good Poem

 


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GloPoWriMo Day 7 - a list poem

This is a found poem. It consists of sentences and phrases found in this text.




What Makes a Good Poem



 

A good poem is a slip-of-a-thing,

a blind date with enchantment,

emotion surprised.

A good poem is a menagerie of craft; a spinning of sound,

an act of discovery.

A good poem is like medicine:

A flavor that lingers on the tongue,

surprises your senses, shakes you awake,

a word that doubles back on itself, not once but twice.

I want poetry that children can understand,

and a way of ending that makes the reader exclaim with delight,

“Robert Frost is icy blue and white!”





2 comments:

  1. You found it. You made it happen. "a word that doubles back on itself, not once but twice." I read this first as "a world". Also true.

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    1. Yes, I kind of agree with everything I found. Though, the input text was written by poets, so all that was left for me to do is copy-paste and nod in agreement.

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