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Poetry: Expressing the unexpressable

8/10/2013

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Want to express something mysterious, mystical or mirthful.? Then you need poetry.

What is Poetry?

Poetry is about using words aesthetically and semantically to have an affect on your audience or reader. In other words, it's about using words for their sounds, looks and meaning to make the reader and listener feel something. 

Poetry is a word of Greek origin. It comes from a verb with means “to make, to create”. A poem is “something made or created”. The poet is the creator and language is the material out of which s/he creates his/her work of art.


Listen below for a mirthful example of Kenn Nesbitts' All My Great Excuses. 

I started on my homework
but my pen ran out of ink.
My hamster ate my homework.
My computer's on the blink.

I accidentally dropped it
in the soup my mom was cooking.
My brother flushed it down the toilet
when I wasn't looking.

My mother ran my homework
through the washer and the dryer.
An airplane crashed into our house.
My homework caught on fire.

Tornadoes blew my notes away.
Volcanoes struck our town.
My notes were taken hostage
by an evil killer clown.

Some aliens abducted me.
I had a shark attack.
A pirate swiped my homework
and refused to give it back.

I worked on these excuses
so darned long my teacher said,
"I think you'll find it's easier
to do the work instead."

--Kenn Nesbitt

6 Comments
Craig Snudden
8/10/2013 12:56:41 pm

What a great poem. As a teacher I have heard some very interesting excuses as to why students have not completed their homework, but your poem has the most creative I have ever heard.
My favourite line is 'My notes were taken hostage' Excellent imagery of your completed homework being held prisoner somewhere.
Thanks for sharing this.

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Cinta
11/10/2013 01:55:23 pm

I'm a pug.
Do you wanna hug?
Sorry no can do,
cause I know Kung-Fu!

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Tiana
5/11/2013 10:03:04 am

That is really good ahah

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Cinta
18/11/2013 10:33:10 am

Thank you ♥

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Ben Wise
12/5/2014 06:39:06 am

I like your little introductory essay about how poetry works. Very well put, except that the word you want is "effect" not "affect," in "..have an effect on your audience or reader." I was a little shocked and very dismayed that someone with such commitment to language is insensitive to that distinction. Here's my handy reference sentence to prevent you from making that error again: Misuse of affect and effect can affect the effectiveness of your writing, and effect a change in your reader's affect from accepting to excepting your work, which would not be the effect - or affect - you intend.

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Ernie Earth link
10/4/2015 07:33:33 am

Wonderful Poem. You expressed the whole feeling of having not done your homework.

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