BRIAN & I ~ Normally post our Poems in Classical Forms ! Sonnets - Pantoums - Villanelles - Acrostics etc. Because they limit the length of the Poem and give it some Rhyme & Rhythm for Recitation. MODERN POETRY on the other hand has no such limitations ! Any Subject - any Length - Not rhyme led (Free Verse) - simple metre - Plain Language - no superfluous verbiage. This is a Modern Poem I drafted (before I met Brian !) but have never posted. It is both SAD & SIMPLE !
I have experienced Loneliness - A
Feeling I was all on my own - alone !
WHY ? Im friendly - lively and outgoing.
I was OK at my Private Girls School
WE all survived through puberty - we had
So much in common - Physically - also
Emotionally - and our future Careers !
But as we developed - we ALL met BOYS !
I was a Day Girl - So I had much more
Opportunity than all the Boarders
To meet BOYS at my Church (Catholic) Youth Club
And Socials ! I travelled to School by TUBE.
I was Academic - little in common
With the Teens @ Church - So I felt LONELY !
A-levels - then PHYSIOTHERAPY
I hoped I would make some Friends @ College !
Again I was not in Residence - but
I had lots of Female Friends - studying
Radiography & types of Nursing.
The MEN assumed that Para-medical
Students were easy prey ! Im a devout
Catholic and valued my VIRGINITY !
The Men wanted SEX - I wanted LOVE &
MARRIAGE - so I was still very LONELY !
Thanks for reading comments welcome - Love ANGELA 💛💛💛
I was 28 when I first met BRIAN - Old enough & experienced enough to know that somehow he was very different ! He was 33 and although handsome & successful he too had never met the right person. He loved every aspect of me not just my Body. My devout Spirituality - He saw as an asset because He was a Deacon in an Evangelical Church ~ AMEN. Except for my 15 months in New Zealand - training to be a PHYSIO Tutor - I have never been lonely again since I met Brian. We are now happily married in our first Home together with Smokey Cat and expect to start our own Family soon ~ AMEN ~ Angela & Brian 💛💛💛
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ANGELA & BRIAN (Pseudonym) (
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A time capsule of angst, with a strong sense of self-awareness.
Like glimpsing a page from your diary.
Thanks for sharing, glad you found the 'happily ever after'
we all strive for, in our own way.
Though, I will just like to add that free verse 'Poetry', is not without structure or rhyme.
Rather, it utilises a Poet's highly developed skills to curate a unique and unorthodox interpretation of nuanced form.
Good Morning LBM - Thanks for your apt comment on the Poem. Also your comments on the structure of Poetry - You are an asset to Younger ones on MPS. I appreciate *Free Verse* is more about the Poets Attitude & Approach to the Subject of the Poem than the absence or otherwise of structure & rhyme. Our last two Poems ~ have not been in Classical Form and are our attempts at Free Verse. However I come from the Liverpool School of Performance Poets (Roger McGoff etc) so all our POETRY must be RECITABLE & REASONABLE ! Maybe that makes us PREDICTABLE ?
Love - Peace - Joy
Angela & Brian 💛💛💛
Poetry originated in spoken 'story telling' form, therefore repetition/alliteration or rhyme were utilised for ease of remembrance and recitation,
modern Poetry has merely evolved, tapping more into an individual's imagination and allowing self-curated responses, to mine meaning from within the clever phrasing of emotive wordplay, just a little less reliant on verse and structure
both are Poetry and when done well: capable of enriching our lives like that extra drop of butter goodness
seeping deep, deep into our core and reassuring our vulnerabilities from within 🙂
forgive me for yet another lengthy comment, I just get carried away sometimes
but, I too appreciate light verse geniuses like McGough, Larkin, Ogden Nash etc
A sensitive write A&B.
I'm gonna use verbiage and waffle on. No change there then?! lol.
What is 'lonliness' as in the title?! heehee. Was you going to do an acrostic and leave an 'e' out? lol.
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