32 lines or more – Poetry Forms (2024)

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My Example Poem

Simple, Not Simplistic (A L’Arora)

My mentor mentioned making my attempts

at penning poetry as speaking to a friend.

The grandiose perhaps will awe a few,

the academics, whose investment

in obcsure even

may seem propitious.

The common man will find

pretention not auspicious.

Your poems should be fun or run with one

to ideas delible in reader’s mind

making them now indelible in his own

Arcadia.

Eschew condemnations, and benisons

but be exponent of provoking thought.

Let poetry maraud through newest notions

and through concepts the Ancients may be taught.

Ignorance is pandemic

and helped along

by dogma,

the quintessential foe of reason.

If agencies are instrumental

in dumbing people down. . .

We poets and the world-wide net

is where new hope is found.

Confounding folks

won’t do the trick

Didactic rants

shall also fail,

but creative and probing poems

when free of condescension,

may lead the Exodus from apathy

and get the world’s attention.

(c) Lawrencealot – Nov 2013