Comments on: A Window into Poetry https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/a-window-into-poetry/ Your muse is live in the city and the bush Fri, 08 Mar 2024 22:40:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Anne Skyvington https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/a-window-into-poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-1089 Wed, 12 Apr 2017 09:22:38 +0000 http://www.anneskyvington.com/?p=9581#comment-1089 In reply to dinadavis2015.

Thank you for this, Dina

]]> By: dinadavis2015 https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/a-window-into-poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-1086 Sat, 25 Mar 2017 06:10:14 +0000 http://www.anneskyvington.com/?p=9581#comment-1086 Beautiful poem Anne, showing your love for your father. Loved your memoir piece on Smith House too..

]]> By: Anne Skyvington https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/a-window-into-poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-1085 Mon, 20 Feb 2017 12:08:35 +0000 http://www.anneskyvington.com/?p=9581#comment-1085 In reply to IAN WELLS.

I like that excerpt.
If you read your poem aloud it helps, I find.
You wrote a great poem about your granddaughter, as a guest post on my blog.
Keep writing poems, Ian.

]]> By: IAN WELLS https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/a-window-into-poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-1084 Mon, 20 Feb 2017 11:45:20 +0000 http://www.anneskyvington.com/?p=9581#comment-1084 Anne,

Yes! I too am an unfulfilled poet. When I read poetry it is an emotional experience, it fills me with joy and it also fills me with sorrow. When I try to write it mostly it fills me with frustration, so why do I keep trying?

“the trouble with poetry is
that it encourages the writing of more poetry,
more guppies crowding the fish tank,
more baby rabbits
hopping out of their mothers into the dewy grass.”
An excerpt from “The Trouble with Poetry: A Poem of Explanation”
by Billy Collins (born William James Collins March 22, 1941) an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003.

The REAL trouble with poetry is that it is a medium for experts … and I am not one.

Regards,
Ian.

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