From Gnomes to Longfellows

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I will never understand you,
Mister Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
You may have had the greatest
ever porn star name
And you let it go to waste.

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Elämää on runous
kaikilla kielillä.

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Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

Robert Frost

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Effects reflect interests
Pleasure suits time best

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I grew up on a road
with two dead ends
A potholed journey
lived in the bends

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Scars are the jewellery
of life lived free

Only fighting

the small battles
Makes you small

I look    forward
to being an old man
I look     behind
To mock youth’s plan

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There is no other choice
Once it is made

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Love is just a word
Until it is said by the right person

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Gnomic
Gnomic poetry consists of sayings that expressed natural, moral, and social truths in a brief, solemn, authoritative manner. They were known by the Greeks as gnomes, from the Greek word for “an opinion”

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Weekly Theme:
Forms I’ve Never Attempted
National Poetry Writing Month
(also known as NaPoWriMo)

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