How I Know It's a Poem - pipTalk Forums

How to Join	Member's Area	Private Library	Search	Sanctuary		Login
Main Forums	Discussion	Tech Talk	Mature Content	Archives	A home without a wall, Our haven without ends, A circle we all call Our Family of Friends!

Open Poetry #4

How I Know It's a Poem

Dom Mart
Member

since 1999-08-17

Posts 164
Florida

0 posted 1999-11-21 04:23 PM

A poem is more than words arrayed
Within a metric frame.
It's more than passion poured out
Or an complex verbal game.

It is to rhyme and meter
What speech is to the tongue.
It's not the metal of the bell
But the metal when it's rung.

I can say what a poem isn't.
What it is I may not know.
But I'm sure that I have read one,
When what I've read won't let me go.

caroline
Senior Member

since 1999-08-16

Posts 1218
http://members.xoom.com/belladona123/index.htm

1 posted 1999-11-21 04:32 PM

What an excellent way to describe it!

You know, I've been checking out your webpage and thoroughly enjoying it

Your Limericks are great!

------------------
Time's fun when you're having flies~~Kermit the Frog

Denise

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

2 posted 1999-11-21 10:44 PM

Very well done, Dom! Yep, when you've read one you certainly know it!

------------------
Denise

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

3 posted 1999-11-21 11:05 PM

Dom - A lovely thought, the verse that keeps returning to our thoughts.

------------------
~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
[email protected]

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

4 posted 1999-11-21 11:12 PM

I think you said it well--a poem strikes a note in your heart.

jenmarie
Junior Member

since 1999-11-09

Posts 27

5 posted 1999-11-22 11:26 PM

now that's a poem and i really enjoyed it

Nan

Administrator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

6 posted 1999-11-23 07:20 AM

Yessir.... 'Tis true!!!

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

7 posted 1999-11-23 07:24 AM

Your last verse is a perfect description of what I look for in a poem... Well done, and Welcome!!

Toerag
Member Ascendant

since 1999-07-29

Posts 5622
Ala bam a

8 posted 1999-11-23 07:30 AM

I think we have another pro in our midst!!

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

9 posted 1999-11-23 09:50 AM

You've got that one right

	⇧ top of page ⇧
All times are ET (US). All dates are in Year-Month-Day format.