What makes a poem … a poem? – Melissa Kovacs

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What makes a poem … a poem? – Melissa Kovacs


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What exactly makes a poem … a poem? Poets themselves have struggled with this question, often using metaphors to approximate a definition. Is a poem a little machine? A firework? An echo? A dream? Melissa Kovacs shares three recognizable characteristics of…

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  1. PhD in English Literature

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  2. To me, any written piece of work that makes you feel something is a poem. Creativity must not be restricted the more you let it overflow, the more it'll grow.

  3. A silly wave,
    The loudest laugh,
    A sunny smile,
    but deep, deep down,
    inside my heart,
    I want to cry
    I want to scream and
    i want to shout,
    I feel the walls breaking,
    cracking and shaking,
    failing to contain this overwhelming wave
    of emotions welling up inside my heart,
    I wanna get help but I
    don't know where to start.

    This isn't the best, but thanks for reading lol

  4. FOREVER LOST – Lili

    I sat upon a lonely beach, watched the gulls and crabs devour

    The remains of one large man, no clothes, no eyes, one hand

    As I enjoyed the morning sun, the waves had washed him clean

    I lazed there for a little while and then began to dream

    And wondered of his story, his sad demise upon the sand. –

    I slowly woke when day had cooled and found I wasn’t alone

    A Spectre sat at my right side and smiled at my surprise

    I was a wanderer he said, a Tramp, a Sailor wild

    And I pray the sea will take me and scatter all my bones

    I’ll tell the story of my murder, no profit now in lies

    For I was just a Gypsy stolen from my tribe as child. –

    Sunken deep within the mire of crime, four lads with time to kill

    And kill we did whenever, we found the chance of coin

    The guilty and the innocent, none spared or conscience felt

    The hand of Satan on my shoulder, the tempest in my loins

    But treachery’s around us all and treachery was dealt

    When I stole within the clan, a wench I didn’t own.-

    I lost my eyes, I lost my hand, I’m destined now to roam

    The lonely shore for evermore, no life, no friends, no hand

    He wandered back to where his form lay rotting on the sand

    Sometimes I hear a wailing, from that Spectre in the foam

    He cannot see, he can’t be free, his anger, hate demand

    The death of any stranger who happens by his home. –

    The beach looks so inviting for swimmers to its shore

    Currents deep and fast, take the unwary to the deep

    Every Summer takes its toll, the Spectre calls for more

    The warning signs upon the sand only tempt the brave

    Dragged out to sea among the fish, reward eternal sleep

    There’ll be no sleep for the vagabond, the sand his lonely grave.

  5. A poem is built by a man
    No wilt.APoem is made of a heart without guilt
    A POET today is a fluttering goose,made up by publishers ugmy bad wooes.
    Wishes 4 money
    Wish 4 control
    U readers od voke
    Have played out your role
    Dandalf the sage and Old Norse Bard ❤