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Comments made on any of these items should be rewarded with four extra points. I'm interested in your personal experience with the poem: What you saw in your mind's eye as you read; Any feelings evoked; How you interpreted the poem and its imagery; Which lines, phrases, and/or stanzas you particularly liked and/or disliked and why; And any other observations that jump to mind as you go to leave your thoughts:

 

 

A Little About Erin the "Poet"

I'm extremely dedicated to poetry as an art form. For me, poetry is more than just the glib stream-of-consciousness thoughts of a pained heart. It is an art that deserves years and years worth of study and practice.

I do not box myself into being of any particular school of poetry. Some of my poems are of a surrealist nature, some symbolic. Most of my material strives to convey animistic experiences and perspectives using what I would have to call an advanced prosody, which could possibly translate into an evolved, progressive formalist approach to poetry.

I write in free verse and in structured forms. Some of my poems I'll write once and never touch again, in the stream-of-consciousness tradition. Most of my poems I dither over until I feel they are as close to "perfect" as I'm capable of achieving. Other poems are sometimes scraped from the dust and revised years after having written them. I'm not a poet of a singular style or approach. I seek out the style and approach that I feel best suits, enlivens, and conveys the content of a given poem.

I have written poetry since I was 12 years old, but I have studied poetry, prosody and related subjects very intensively since the middle of 2001. Most of what I've learned I've learned since then.

Hope you'll enjoy the work I share here. A lot of time and energy has gone into most of it.



Flagship Examples of my Poetry

1) "The Lotus Tree" is by far the best example of my work in poetry. It describes an animistic experience I had over the full moon of the Spring, 2004 equinox. It is a four part poem comprised of two villanelles and two terzanelles.

2) "Anima Cantus" is a sense-impression art poem that explores the psyche from an animistic point of view through the interrelating of it's apparent nature with sound and music related concepts. The poem is a hybridanelle, which is a poetic form I invented in November 2004.

3) "Sakura" is one of my trisects, written in April. Took me about three weeks to write, and I feel it represents a solid leap forward in my progress as a poet. Since the trisect is meant for readers to develop their own interpretations from, it would defeat this intent for me to introduce it talking about what inspired me to write the poem. So, if you read, I'll be very interested in how you understood and experienced the content.

 

 

Poems and Columns Organized by List

 

My lists are organized mostly by form, and the poems in each list should be organized by the most recent write to the oldest. For those of you who are familiar with poetic forms, the hybridanelle is a hybridization of the villanelle and terzanelle forms into a single form. I've put a lot of time and energy into exploring this structure. The trisect is a form very loosely based on the Pindaric Ode. Since early 2006 I've been putting considerable time and energy into these as well. If you don't read the article I wrote on the trisect, then the most important thing you should keep in mind when reading them is that they are meant for you to understand based on your own interpretation, not based on what you think I as the author meant in writing them. If you're planning on providing feedback, I'm presently most interested in feedback on my trisect poems right now:

 

 

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  • Kay Laon Anders : Dude. on October 1
    LOL.. You have some odd comments here... um yeah anyways Happy Joy Day!..

    Kay
  • Roy-rahbar : Empty street. on September 9
    Hello Zahhar...please have a look at one of my poem 'Empty street' is it qualify to be called an English Ghazal...thank you..regards.
    Roy-rahbar.
  • unavailable on September 3
    Yo're a busy bee, written so much as you do.
    Hope to get a hello out of you someday.
  • carmen on August 20
    oi the social box is back. good to see this here again, my anti-social friend

 

 

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  • Last seen right now. Member since July 15, 2004.
  • I'm a lyric diamond poet for 2699 comments.
  • My mood is , and quote is "Don't forget to rate comments".
  • I am a man from California (United States)
  • When I'm not writing, I'm Child Care Worker.
  • Visit my homepage at www.myspace.com/zahhar
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