Thanks Bob. As from my first attempt at true poetry, one can surmise am not a poet. Some of your poetry reminds me of a long deceased cousin who wrote words of prose. She was published once or twice. I never took prose seriously, as is easy to see, based on what I placed out there. Yours is good, sincerely.
But the important thing is to have a message. Among other things, I like books.
For me, poetry is about capturing and expressing an emotion, and often, giving someone a view they may not have considered.
It also gives me a chance to recycle old jokes.
You never know. I try to keep it fresh.
Tune In Tomorrow
When you go into a theater,
To stumble to your seat,
You hear the music starting,
And know you’ll have a treat.
That is just exactly,
The way I feel each day,
When morning has arisen,
And birdsong starts to play.
The shuttered light is showing,
The screen attracts my eye,
The scrolling credits roll across,
A brightly colored sky.
As every day the show begins,
I sit back and enjoy,
The special scenes and music;
The methods they employ.
Who would have thought a cricket,
Would be a music source?
Yet when the light goes down again,
The stars are shown, of course.
They wryly wink, and stately stroll,
Across the up-built stage,
Where generations of my folk,
Have watched throughout the age.
Somewhere there is a Writer,
Producer and much more,
I’m tuning in Tomorrow.
Who knows what lies in store?
NicknamedBob . . . . . March 23, 2008
The above is written entirely in prose (by you). Prose is not poetry or in anyway related to poetry. Simply put, prose is every day regular speech or writing.