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My Love of Poetry

January 9, 2022 by Deanna Repose Oaks

My love for poetry started off with nursery rhymes and deepened from books such as Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss and Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein, both read at an early age. I tend to love poems with rhyme & meter – the way the words feel as I read them aloud. That is why I truly loved Shakespeare so well the first time I read his works – the composition of the words is so melodic and most everything is in rhyme.

The story behind the Star-Spangled Banner taught me that song lyrics are rhyming poems set to a piece of music. After learning about songs, I moved away from the printed page when it came to poetry. Poetry then became this living, breathing entity – documented each week as Casey Kasem counted down the top forty. Songs tell a living history and date back to the middle ages. I moved from studying Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, and Emily Dickinson to studying Bob Dylan, Andrew Sisters, Glenn Miller, Chris Cornell, Metallica, Lenny Kravitz, Grand Master Flash, NWA, Jay-Z, Anthony Kiedis, Jim Morrison, Marvin Gaye, Johnny Cash… you get the idea. Again, the meter and rhyme were what hooked me. Their poetic meanings so rich in songs so simple is what keeps me loving poetry and music.

There are many people who say they don’t “get” poetry. For me, “getting” poetry isn’t a thing, it is a feeling. The way the words feel as I read them aloud, how they echo through my memory or my knowledge of history or my emotions… that is what poetry is to me.

I have a challenging time answering others when they ask me what my poems mean, because I feel poems should echo through the reader, not the writer. My poems crystallize a moment in time – a single feeling from a single moment – a spotlight on emotion. Feedback from previous readers: better when read aloud. But what these poems mean is not up to me, their meanings are up to you…

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Filed Under: Opening Up Tagged With: meaning of poetry, Music, music as poetry

Oblivion

September 20, 2019 by Deanna Repose Oaks

Music, mayhem, drunks
swirling faster than
a twirly spoon in
craft cocktails
Through the room

– so alive with sound and drowning in booze –

I see my passed life

Pass before my eyes
Life’s spectral ghosts unseen by those younger than I

Wavering on the precipice of youth
Trying to build the handrail to
Keep me upright, inside

Music, mayhem, drunks
now
swirling faster
toward…

Filed Under: Random Poetry Tagged With: drunks, mayhem, Music, oblivion, Poetry

My Kind of Monster

January 26, 2019 by Deanna Repose Oaks

The pain I hear within your voice
Hits too close to heart
Pain I cherish, oh so dear
(For it captures my own strong fear)
Even as I stand, I am falling
A part
Two halves, not a hole
Never deep enough for me to bury
The dead, the lost,
The Unforgiven
Because I crave the days of merry
Meant: the whole world went to shit

I never had a Master, a bottle always at hand
Never so far, always
A part

Play that record, just one more time
That One from yesteryear
Which holds your pain within your voice
For everyone to hear
I drift everyday within the world
Then Fade to Black, out
Just in time for you to pull me in
To a newfound world of without

Your words still echo strong
Within my bleeding heart
But even with renewed purpose, just beneath
Surface tension, building up
Along the rim of my cup
Just waiting for my wreath

Filed Under: Random Poetry Tagged With: addiction, Holding On, Music, Poem

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