Poetry Is Alive
Poetry is Alive - The Current and Future of Poetry
Though its forms have changed over centuries, poetry is Alive! In this hub, I explore the subject of poetry from personal experience and continued discovery.
All poetry copyright Mindy Makuta (aka MyFairLadyah) Reprint with Permission
Poets still write
For readers' delight
Their hearts speak
To lift up the weak
— MyFairLadyahThank You, Thank You
On Reading Poetry Aloud to an Audience of Strangers
Thank you, Thank you
For being here to listen
While we poets profess
Our heart held convictions
Know that you are an essential element
To this experience
To this sharing of ourselves
An approving, civil audience
That listens and perhaps hears
What some of us say
This venue, where our free words are spoken
Is essential too
Thank you, Thank you
For being here to listen
Getting Over Stage Fright - Help You in Reciting Poetry Aloud and Other Helpful Ideas
I'm Taking a Big Chance
I'm taking a big chance
See, my poetry doesn't go askance
I try to paint a picture, tell a story
And I don't write the for glory
But I'd like you who hear or read
To be planted with the seed
To love the words and mood
That they would do some good
To have you think or give you calm
Or even rise you up in alarm
That the meter is pleasant
Let this be a gift; a present
A lifelong love of the poetic
I, the poet, being prophetic
This is the best that I can give
That my words shall live
Poetry for the 21st Century
Love of Language Always to Empower
Will the current writings be forgotten
As we speedily hurtle towards the new
I say that would certainly be rotten
But it's not too likely that would ensue
The future beckons with new technology
We may all have tablet readers one day
Yet, Nostradamus' quatrains of astrology
Obscure as they were, are known today
And, too, Chaucer, Milton and Spencer
Still are dissected in Literature class
Though the language somewhat denser
We won't be left in a boring morass
We will always value what is well written
And find some way to access and devour
The new generations will yet be smitten
With love of language always to empower
More Poetry for the 21st Century
Into the Future
Into the future the poet shall go
And liven the soul of the reader
The words will live on, we know
Like the hundreds years old cedar
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