John what a beautiful language Maori is


I believe that poetry lives , the emotion it engenders the way it can bring excitement sadness happiness laughter helplessness despair, beauty

I often read the poetry of the first War Poets and they bring tears to my eyes no matter how often I reread them they have the same effect no novel has ever achieved that.

And it is these emotions I try to bring into my poetry, I may not achieve it ever but to have a goal and strive for it is better than to have no goal and achieve complacency
take care

david

Poetry is the expression of the soul
More often than not it is more for the writer than the reader
If the reader can take away the emotions involved and understand the message they try to explain then the job is half done.
A poem is not trying to be a short story, a poem is a million things and all different with each artist. A novel can hit the spot in a thousand pages; a poem can touch you in just a few words so I don’t think a poem holds less value because it has less volume.

Scott

may it perhaps be true to say that the poem is the picture of the literary world

as you rightly say a poem can in a few words say what a novel may take a thousand to relate (that is not a derisory comment about prose)

the poem just like a picture, offers almost instant recognition but also in the same way as a good picture has many nuances hidden with in it which requires you to revisit it from time to time unravel its inner beauty.

or am I being too poetic?