Comments on: Write a poem that discusses a real moment in your life without discussing its larger meaning http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-confessional-poetry/ Writing Career Center Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:49:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kate Dornbusch http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-confessional-poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-226129 Kate Dornbusch Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:17:21 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-confessional-poetry/#comment-226129 Not sure if this works, but here goes: Homework The clock ticks relentlessly Each second an echoing cackle Only one hour left Not enough time to finish And this is just high school Not sure if this works, but here goes:

Homework

The clock ticks relentlessly
Each second an echoing cackle
Only one hour left
Not enough time to finish
And this is just high school

]]> By: John Hewitt http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-confessional-poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-187499 John Hewitt Thu, 22 May 2008 12:59:59 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-confessional-poetry/#comment-187499 Saul, You got a poem in for the day, thats the important thing. Saul,

You got a poem in for the day, thats the important thing.

]]> By: Saul Nadata http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-confessional-poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-187409 Saul Nadata Thu, 22 May 2008 04:39:25 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-confessional-poetry/#comment-187409 Apologies. In the limited time I had, I skipped this assignment and wrote the poem below instead. -- Quick Study You can make of yourself a study on losing. Something is always slipping away. It’s never your fault. It’s rarely your choosing. Who’s to blame? You can walk around accusing everyone you meet of forcing you to overpay. You can make of yourself a study on losing but there are dim prospect there. Abusing the abusers is a dead end, and who’s to say it’s never your fault? It’s rarely your choosing where you start, but how you go about using what you’ve got determines what, everyday, you can make of yourself. A study on losing, a moratorium on kissing, even the act of refusing present joy and casting your eyes astray: it’s never your fault. It’s rarely your choosing until all at once, yes, it is, and you’re capable of amusing yourself, and one day you wake up with no way you can make of yourself a study on losing-- but that’s the moment you have something worth losing. Just--just be careful. Just hold it all close, okay? It’s never your fault; it’s rarely your choosing; but is that the line you want to go around reusing, like those broken men in churches who won’t pray? You can make of yourself a study on losing. It’s never your fault. It’s (rarely) your choosing. Saul Nadatas last blog post..<a href="http://featuredpoems.blogspot.com/2008/05/quick-study.html" rel="nofollow">Quick Study</a> Apologies. In the limited time I had, I skipped this assignment and wrote the poem below instead.

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Quick Study

You can make of yourself a study on losing.
Something is always slipping away.
It’s never your fault. It’s rarely your choosing.

Who’s to blame? You can walk around accusing
everyone you meet of forcing you to overpay.
You can make of yourself a study on losing

but there are dim prospect there. Abusing
the abusers is a dead end, and who’s to say
it’s never your fault? It’s rarely your choosing

where you start, but how you go about using
what you’ve got determines what, everyday,
you can make of yourself. A study on losing,

a moratorium on kissing, even the act of refusing
present joy and casting your eyes astray:
it’s never your fault. It’s rarely your choosing

until all at once, yes, it is, and you’re capable of amusing
yourself, and one day you wake up with no way
you can make of yourself a study on losing–

but that’s the moment you have something worth losing.
Just–just be careful. Just hold it all close, okay?
It’s never your fault; it’s rarely your choosing;

but is that the line you want to go around reusing,
like those broken men in churches who won’t pray?
You can make of yourself a study on losing.
It’s never your fault. It’s (rarely) your choosing.

Saul Nadatas last blog post..Quick Study

]]> By: Poetry Writing Tips | Writer's Resource Center http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-confessional-poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-135050 Poetry Writing Tips | Writer's Resource Center Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:50:57 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-confessional-poetry/#comment-135050 [...] 30 Poems in 30 Days: Confessional Poetry [...] [...] 30 Poems in 30 Days: Confessional Poetry [...]

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]]> By: Rianon Burnet http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-confessional-poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-121039 Rianon Burnet Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:40:15 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-confessional-poetry/#comment-121039 Sorry, I didn't realize that it was posted twice, I don't know what happened. Sorry,
I didn’t realize that it was posted twice, I don’t know what happened.

]]> By: Rosemary Nissen-Wade http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-confessional-poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-120901 Rosemary Nissen-Wade Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:34:51 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-confessional-poetry/#comment-120901 John: This is so much more powerful, and indeed horrifying, for the lack of extraneous commentary. I guess there are times when all we can do is bear witness. And I do believe it's important to do so. John: This is so much more powerful, and indeed horrifying, for the lack of extraneous commentary. I guess there are times when all we can do is bear witness. And I do believe it’s important to do so.

]]> By: Rosemary Nissen-Wade http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-confessional-poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-120899 Rosemary Nissen-Wade Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:30:15 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-confessional-poetry/#comment-120899 Dear Rianon, Thank YOU! I read it with delight and excitement, feeling how the staccato rhythm reinforced the sense, thinking how well it was working and how it reveals the true poet I'd glimpsed in your other pieces ... and then you say it's for me. What a fabulous gift! Dear Rianon,
Thank YOU! I read it with delight and excitement, feeling how the staccato rhythm reinforced the sense, thinking how well it was working and how it reveals the true poet I’d glimpsed in your other pieces … and then you say it’s for me. What a fabulous gift!

]]> By: Rianon Burnet http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-confessional-poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-120877 Rianon Burnet Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:31:49 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-confessional-poetry/#comment-120877 Rosemary, Thank you! THis one above is for you. Rosemary, Thank you! THis one above is for you.

]]> By: Rianon Burnet http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-confessional-poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-120876 Rianon Burnet Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:30:53 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/30-poems-in-30-days-confessional-poetry/#comment-120876 I agree, I really want people to feel what I write, sometimes I guess I just get scared that they will see inside of me and try to distract them with rhyming. You have shown me that it's good to do so, you told me once that I need to explore other alternatives in my styles of writing. I have and here is one, Photo Gallery Frozen; To look at one’s self; Cemented; You come in; The loving; The prize; In front of me; Singing; The next; Your dance To step; A hex; In time; You’re still; Movement absorbs me; Fine; Step aside; Some one talks; Silence broken; Thoughts stride; Life is still; Time stopped; Beauty exults; My soul in fill; A statue of steal; Screaming; Almost alive; Feel; Bring forth; The next turn; A corner; Art and more; Exhilarating; Pounding heart; Emotions; Not just a fling; Everlasting flight; Yearning; Craving; As beautiful as night; I want more; Can you feel it; I dig deeper; I soar; Smile; Frowns; Indifference; Beauties; Feelings mixed; Confusing thoughts; Racing; Bodies fixed; Pictures move; Yet unshaken; Tricks never play; I’m soothed. I agree, I really want people to feel what I write, sometimes I guess I just get scared that they will see inside of me and try to distract them with rhyming. You have shown me that it’s good to do so, you told me once that I need to explore other alternatives in my styles of writing. I have and here is one,

Photo Gallery
Frozen;
To look at one’s self;
Cemented;
You come in;
The loving;
The prize;
In front of me;
Singing;

The next;
Your dance
To step;
A hex;
In time;
You’re still;
Movement absorbs me;
Fine;

Step aside;
Some one talks;
Silence broken;
Thoughts stride;
Life is still;
Time stopped;
Beauty exults;
My soul in fill;

A statue of steal;
Screaming;
Almost alive;
Feel;
Bring forth;
The next turn;
A corner;
Art and more;

Exhilarating;
Pounding heart;
Emotions;
Not just a fling;
Everlasting flight;
Yearning;
Craving;
As beautiful as night;

I want more;
Can you feel it;
I dig deeper;
I soar;
Smile;
Frowns;
Indifference;
Beauties;

Feelings mixed;
Confusing thoughts;
Racing;
Bodies fixed;
Pictures move;
Yet unshaken;
Tricks never play;
I’m soothed.

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