“The trouble with poetry”

[jersea]

I agree with Lynn, I think the cliche works. I personally don't mind cliche, but I can see Virgil's point.

[dibyendra]

Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin

like Chinese food, fulfilling us
at the time, but half an hour later
we are hungry again,
hungry for the next poem
and the next one

but, really, searching
for the lost, original one.

Lovely! We are all hungry for the next poem as soon as we write one!

[dibyendra]

Originally Posted by blazeofglory

It is really absorbing to me and I remember I had this problem too when I started writing poems. I wrote poems hungrily and unstoppably and spawning one poem after another I never got tired of writing poetry. I was intoxicated with poetry. I wrote poems about nature, love, sufferings and the like. I never got content with a few poems and it was rather menacing as my parents warned me when I wrote them everyday cornering myself in a room and of course secluding myself from the rest of the world. This continued for a few years and suddenly a new circumstance turned up and I joined college and studied science.I was too poor at math and had to labor hard to learn it and it sucked all my time and I had little time for writing poetry. Then I had to go to a bigger city wherein I learned English as a second language for I needed it as a medium of study for I had to depend upon textbooks written in English only. I shifted to English as a means of communication and wrote very few poems since then.

This poem of yours reminds me of all my earlier formative days. I feel nostalgic. Now I write poems fewer in numbers. But I choose to read poems.

Your comment is also quite absorbing, Blaze! I can very much relate to your comment and your comment also reminded me of my earlier days when I started writing poems.