{"id":1892,"date":"2015-09-14T15:31:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T20:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2015-09-14T15:31:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T20:31:20","slug":"poem-free-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/14\/poem-free-verse\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Free Verse"},"content":{"rendered":"

You are trying<\/strong>
\nToo figure out<\/strong>
\nPerhaps even singularly a verse<\/strong>
\nPaying sum game<\/strong>
\nNever getting<\/strong>
\nA head<\/strong>
\nDis integrating<\/strong>
\nAs a metaphysical meting<\/strong>
\nOf meter and anti-meter<\/strong>
\nUnmoved<\/strong>
\nObject<\/strong>
\nAnd unstoppable farce<\/strong>
\nWith unending meanings<\/strong>
\nCrying<\/strong>
\nHelp<\/strong>
\nLessly under stand<\/strong>
\nIn during a sublime accost<\/strong>
\nThe prize of free verse<\/strong>
\nOnly getting what<\/strong>
\nYou pay for<\/strong><\/p>\n

This poem is about the difficulty inherent in understanding most poetry.\u00a0 There is little doubt that most of my poetry is — sit down for this one — difficult too under-stand.\u00a0 My poetry niche of puns, word plays, metaphors mixing, and parallel, interweaving narratives dancing in tension, calls for the exertion of effort to unlock its treasures.\u00a0 That good things require effort is a paramount law of life exceeded only greatly by the law of grace, that life and its goodness are even available to us at awe.\u00a0 Poets learn both of these laws well under the tutelage of muses of most any sort.\u00a0 You get what you pay for.\u00a0 But don’t look too deep or you may very well get way more than you bargained for!<\/p>\n

May you plumb the depths and scale the heights of artists looming a bout, and may you find more than mere scraps…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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