| User | DavidHirt | | Topic | Introductions | | Message | Alright. I’ve been here for awhile but I figured I’d use this to introduce my poetry to those who want to know how and why I write.
First, I consider myself a Catholic mystic. And as such my poetry tends to take on a wholistic world view. I truly believe that every visible image manifests some invisible idea. It is the concept of image, accident, and grace.
That being said. I love words. I love sound. Every word I use that can have multiple meanings is used because of that. I write with awarenes of what I am writing. Image is sacred, emotion is sacred, idea is sacred. They are my trinity of writing.
I write on many diferent levels in my best work. There is the image, the idea... there are many ideas depending ont he words I use. If you want an easy poem, my poems can be deceptively easy, but they are always more complex.
Read into my poems whatever you want. I probably thought of it.
If you want gushing emotion, stay away. I don’t gush. I don’t write a lot of love poetry though some of it can be seen that way. My muse is Polyhymnia, the muse of sacred song in Greek Mythology. My religion and Faith are very important to me.
What do I do in my life? Currently I’m making a living as a Carpenter in Chicago. I canor at my church every sunday, leading my church in song, especially in the singing of the psalms. If I belived in reincarnation, I’m pretty sure I may have been King David in a previous life. My last name means Shepherd.
What else can I say. I like critique. I crave it. I want to improve my skill. No matter how personal a poem sems to be, write what you want about it... you won’t ofend me. If I was just sharing my feelings with you and wanted only empathy and praise, I wouldn’t be here.
Poetry is not just emotion on a page... it is art.
I like forms, yes, but I constantly strive to create my own as well. |
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| User | DavidHirt | 2006-04-29 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | Other poems, though, are simply observations... especially my character poems. They are people I have seen on trains and I immediately loved and wanted to write about... even not knowing them more than what they suggested in my mind. |
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