microscopic muses

You carry your protection  A home’s safety shield (Until, garden boots shatter)  

    Those sweaty men     Chase an elusive  ball     Points escaping NB: well done England 2-0  

  https://www.readpoetry.com/3-poems-to-help-you-reflect-on-the-past/     POETRY 3 POEMS TO HELP YOU REFLECT ON THE PAST by   Raquel Dionísio Abrantes     March 1, 2020    12.86k Reflection is essential in everyone’s life. It is an inner action that helps us analyze our own existence. However, introspection can be harsh at times because it evokes memories and challenging moments. So, what better way to reflect than with poetry? Make yourself comfortable, grab your favorite beverage, and reflect on these poems.     “I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER” BY THOMAS HOODS    I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!       Childhood is a very crucial time, and in this first stanza, Hoods recalls his infancy home and brings us on his nostalgic voyage. He is held in the present, daydreaming about the past. The last two lines

one way or another  t his is the beginning of an end how we wake from sleep, from a dream how we ...... straighten to bend

The language of the lips The law of the loving The learning to leave * well alone *

If I tell you  about the voice of the flowers  (that grow in my garden) Will you tell  me, how to find the Soul of the Sea (where you live)

When the world makes me feel sad; that I’m no longer good enough to live in it When people squash my dreams and  hold hostage my aspirations When life’s elements smash down the walls of my fortress, so time reminds me of my wrong doings  When each hill (I attempt to climb) then becomes ‘Mount Everest’ and each wave, a tsunami; * I will remember you and smile *

    

    

    

 

 

 

I want  To touch You But know If I do I will lose The wanting To  

 

  The Delicate Craft of Writing Poetry    Jakob Ryce Sep 6, 2019 The rules must first be learned in order to be broken Jakob Ryce Sep 6, 2019  ·  Photo by  Taylor Ann Wright  on  Unsplash There are a lot of writers out there who take their poetry very, very seriously. They study tone, lineation, verse and structure. They analyze rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and the many conventions of Western poetry. And while it’s important for a writer to understand the function of line-breaks, alliteration and form, etc — poetry remains one of the few forms of prose where there are no rules. In an essay about writing poetry, Robert Pinsky — one of America’s foremost poet-critics — states: “There are no rules. Or, you can modify that rule by observing that each work of art generates its own unique rules.” And critic and poet, James Longenbach, in ‘The Art of the Poetic Line,’ connects the definition of poetry to lineation: “Poetry is the sound of language organized in lines.” I began to view my po