“Poetry Rules” by Steven Porter July 17, 2008
Posted by Rodger Jacobs in On Literature.Tags: poems, poetry, poetry rules, poets, Steven Porter
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Poems can be written
without falling
into the arms of institutions
like Fergusson
Without sailing
into the blue unknown
like Byron
Poems can be written
without taking a gun on board
as a sole companion
Poetry didn’t die
with Emily Dickinson
Poems can be written anywhere
Experience of Red Sea trading
is not a prerequisite
William Carlos Williams wrote in between consultations
T.S. Eliot worked for Lloyds
And Borges knew poetry is the queen bee
that pollinates our libraries.
(Steven Porter was born in Inverness, Scotland, and lives in A Coruña, Spain. A chapbook of poems entitled Shellfish and Umbrellas is due out this summer.)
i swear too you ..not once did i ever sit down and write a poem..though i did try..i found it made me overcomplicate things
id move away from my existing thoughts..honestly..i must have down over a hundred of the fuckers..but there all there in my head..sad really ..daft memory..or something…i reckon ive found another place..on maybe six of them…just top of the head stuff..i know i can do some decent pieces in the future…just lost the urge for now…if i went for a walk along the mersey..this afternoon..id get something out..i have no idea what..but then i never did..never planned any of them…might try again soon..im not sure..i know this sounds nonsense.. but its not..im going back to ibiza in a few weeks…i met brente there..she was the true love of my life…but she died a couple of years ago..i want to go see her…lifes easy..ive had a good one…just so tempting ..to try something else…