An Art Sprinkled According To Taste

There are many quotes on this which will likely turn up here.One of my personal favorites is a quote from Carl Sandburg:

"Poetry is an echo,

asking a shadow to dance."

There are people in the world who would prefer a poem constrained to perfect form and style. I suppose that crowd has it's fans but it seems to take away the magic for me.

Of course there is certainly a place for craft and form as much as there's a place for free verse and experimental forms. Honestly I'm much more particular about subject matter. Subject matter can push people away who you're trying to entice.

My poetry is a canvas that isn't just for the museum elite.

Nor for the elite of any background for that matter.

Nor for those who are prideful of being exactly the opposite.

Really,I think E.E Cummings had it right saying that poetry and all other arts are strictly up to the individual. Poetry is a snapshot that can be written in so many ways or lengthened to several shapshots to create a great whole.

It is poem when many people agree it poem. Then you are a poet.