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The Old Recipe
Contributed by
pete
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Tuesday, 13th August 2002 @ 06:12:53 AM in AEST
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THE OLD RECIPE…(©Peter Sprenkeler)
Poetry has degenerated…become maligned and stereotyped,
Inert, vague and obscure…no longer a joy to savour.
There are few readers that will buy this form of verse,
Unpopular…to the avid reader…an unpalatable flavour.
Old fashioned I may be but there are hallowed maxims,
And these are not to be tampered with for any reason.
There are so many types of verse around these days,
Well written poetry is at a premium…and always will be in season.
But this modern inept and sterile non-rhyming verse,
Has cast a veil of despondency…the public is aware and has detected.
No longer is poetry held in the esteem it richly deserves,
For most modern verse is radical…the 'sacred boundaries' it has rejected.
This unpopularity grows…literary agents reject it point-blank,
We have tampered with the recipe…'Pseudo-poetry' simply does not sell.
All the treasured old rules of great poetry have been discarded,
Ushered in is a form that fails dismally…the buying public can tell.
The poetry devotee doesn't seek the obscure and difficult in the reading,
They need literary food and words with clarity and awesome power.
They need and will buy words that will thrill and nourish them,
Precise words…explicit…poetic reading that they will attack and devour.
Perhaps if we get back to that trusted old poetic recipe so valued,
The readers will return…and literary agents will again have a smile.
For poetry will emerge again as it should…a saleable and loved art form,
An art form the public will pay for and applaud…not as now…revile!
Copyright ©
pete
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2002-08-13 06:12:53]
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Re: The Old Recipe
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by Jackee_line on
Monday, 17th March 2003 @ 12:34:31 PM AEST
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Nicely written, How you feel about the poetry of today is only your oppinion. As for me I enjoy all the different styles of poetry.What moves a person through someone elses words is different for everyone.
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Re: The Old Recipe
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by SuicidalSon on
Monday, 29th September 2003 @ 02:43:03 PM AEST
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| If I may make a point your thoughts on poetry are great but your poetic talent really sucks. There is a difference in poetry from then and now that difference is language if people cant understand what you are saying they will not buy. And truthfully you have no talent that I have read yet maybe just maybe I'll find a poem of yours I may like. Your free verse words you think are good Man you got poetry misunderstood. Sorry thats just how I feel maybe I'm a bad critic but as a poet it is my job. |
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