Does a poem ever impose?
Or does it simply just propose,
The abstract and beautiful, not just prose.
Like tweets and texts; save me from the throes
Of death; free verse itself – joy outflows.
- Gary Edward Geraci
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Gary Edward Geraci (
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- Comment from author about the poem: A short cinquain for one to contemplate...[copied from my Instagram account @garyegeraci] Q. Why did you choose a five-line stanza in your poem “Social Media Platforms for the Abstract and Beautiful”? A. This is a special, asymmetrical form of poetry called a cinquain. The title of the poem is meant to mimic the title of say, an academic “white paper” that one might present during a conference, say while in San Antonio, a city well equipped to host business and academic conferences. My wife and I happened to be in San Antonio when I wrote this one. According to Hirsch (A Poet’s Glossary), writing about the cinquain, ...”the imbalance often enacts a feeling of something beyond reason, an out-of-kilter comedy...”
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A gr8 wright Gary. Oops I been texting too much! lol.
Thank you Orchidee. How would we survive without our Tweets and Texts?
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