Poetry Corner: What's your honest poem?
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Today, I was singing about one of my favorite contemporary poets. His name is Rudy Francisco. And a few years ago, he released a collection of poetry called Helium with Button Poetry. By the way, if you haven't heard of Button poetry before and you love poetry, definitely check it out. They publish a lot of contemporary poets, and they have a lot of spoken word slammed poetry content on their Instagram and YouTube, so definitely check that out if that's something that's up your alley
That's also why I fall in love with women who will never love me back. I know it sounds crazy, but it's actually easier than it seems, and I think it's safer that way. Relationships remind me that I'm not afraid of heights or falling, but I'm afraid of what's going to happen when my body hits the ground. I'm clumsy. Yesterday I tripped over my self esteem, landed on my pride and it shattered like an iphone with a broken face
Even if you don't have anything to share from your own experience, I'm still glad that it resonated with you. And then it spoke to you. I'm a big fan of poets who are great at creating really vivid imagery and just putting you in the poem or just writers in general who are fantastic to get that. I think people who can write really great descriptions and I show without telling, are incredibly talented people
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Hi. I have a poem to enrich with here. I hope it's called Paddle Your Own Canoe by Sarah Bolton Sarah T. Bolton Voyager upon life see to yourself be be true. And where are you?
Thanks for sharing that poem because it was interesting to hear, in contrast to my honest poem by Rudy, because I feel like they both could be categorized as, you know, very personal, vulnerable pieces. But Rudy's is more about revealing deep parts of the inner workings of his mind. And Sarah Bolton's poem seems to be more about right and wrong, and it seems to be more motivational to the righteous person who strives for glory and has a lot of ambitions
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