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Sometimes Not
by Chris Sorrenti
Sometimes
It seems there’s no longer a need to write poetry
When the poet becomes the poem
Each day a new set of stanzas
Breathing in slanted rhyme
When one lives poetry
Sometimes
It’s all the poetry he or she really needs
© 2007
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07/06/2007 Author's Note: Inverse piece for the poem, Sometimes, in the same collection, Steel Clouds.
Posted on 07/07/2007
Copyright © 2026 Chris Sorrenti
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Quentin S Clingerman on 07/07/07 at 02:49 AM Hmmm When the messenger becomes the message. Fascinating concept! |
| Posted by Tony Whitaker on 07/07/07 at 08:58 AM I always enjoy your work and the "slant" you take on observing life. I also happen to believe you do become a poem, as I constantly find myself looking for alliteration, meters and the" Found Poems" of life. |
| Posted by Morgan D Hafele on 07/07/07 at 08:05 PM but if the poem stops writing and just is... then what are we to do with out it? the poet or the poem, i guess in this case they're one in the same... uh, my mind is boggled... |
| Posted by Michelle Angelini on 07/11/07 at 07:51 PM Chris, when nature surrounds me and I'm in a calm, safe place - yes, you've described it perfectly. Excellent.
~Chelle~ |
| Posted by A. Paige White on 07/11/07 at 09:59 PM This is beautifully captured and inspirational. I just love that breath when in the exact center of living a poetic moment the exhalation of an exuberant exaltation:
Now THIS is poetry!
Such is life. |
| Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 07/15/07 at 04:29 AM And to this, I tip my pen! Amen!
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| Posted by Kyle Anne Kish on 07/15/07 at 04:42 PM " .. Each day a new set of stanzas
Breathing in slanted rhyme
When one lives poetry .." ... so well phrased. The poet, the poem ... all in one. I really like this, Chris. |
| Posted by Alison McKenzie on 08/03/07 at 10:48 PM But what if it's the message that makes the messenger? But I do see that sometimes, the words themselves cannot speak of it. I love the expression of your observations. |
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