I plan to continue my poetic adventure in 2023, similar to how I started in 2022, with a slight variation. Starting with the letter A, I will try to explore several poetry styles. This journey in poetry writing started two years ago when I strongly desired to learn more about reading and writing poetry. Black Out Poems became my obsession at the end of 2022. I promise to be a little more diverse this year. I started 2023 by writing “Ars Poetic” verse style. This form of poetry can be translated from Latin as “The Art of Poetry,” I titled this poem The Blizzard.
How does “Ars Poetic?” relate to the poem The Blizzard
Horace started this tradition somewhere around 13 B.C.E. This form of poetry is simply writing a poem about writing a poem. It expresses how the poet feels when engaged in the writing process, examining the poet’s relationship to the poem. There are no rules about meter or rhythm. Writing this form of poetry should be a fun experience.
Note: I decided to tackle my “Ars Poetic” poems by writing them in a series of poems without any rules of meter and rhythm. The subject matter concerns what I could write about if I chose to write about the subject matter.
The Blizzard The wind is howels outside my door Like a banshee call for a kill I cover my ears because I can’t take any more The snow taps on my windowpane I know you will never get the car up the hill If you decide to try to make it home And like a stupid fool I pulled Stephen King’s The Shining From the bookshelf and started to read Picking a horror in a disaster is never a good rule The lights flickered, and the snow piled high And I wondered what I would do To keep my babies warm if the lights went out Or a deranged man broke through the front door I guess I could write about that Like notes sung by a little bird Letter upon letter Word upon word Line upon line Stanza upon stanza This poem is for me to create and define
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