the exact poet

the exact poet

 

 

i very carefully, meticulously

throw words randomly on the page

as if there were purpose

 

and i had some reverence for my genre.

Who entrusted me to write poetically minded

excursions

 

my pen was less traveled

than a five-year old kid

with a sheltered life

 

you read me and surmised

i had actually spent time

choosing each word so delicately

 

enumerating on the expansive vocabulary

of synonyms and other erstwhile condiments

that adorn a well-prepared poem

 

yet, i fool you all,

my offerings fall on the white floor of parchment

like cards in a game of 52-pickup

 

some of them face up,

but most of them too embarrassed to show

even the most careless correspondent.

 

 

erin-cilberto

5/15.22

Reviews

[Lena]

An entertaining look at the voluminous amount of words available to humans and yet we use and teach so little. This is wonderful!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind comment, Lena,
j.

[Temperance]

I really like this! It truly reflects the difficulty in writing a poem and finding the right words. It can be a struggle at times. Thanks again for a great poem!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you, Temperance,
j.

[Not A Writer]

I think this stanza says it all: "yet, i fool you all,

my offerings fall on the white floor of parchment

like cards in a game of 52-pickup"

You see poetry for the art it really is.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, Ethan,
j.

[L. E. Standoff]

This poem is amazing and truly describes the hardships of writing poems and how important it is to choose your words wisely it is amazing and the word choice is immaculate I love the poem and you should be a professional poet

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your very kind review, L.E..
j.

[Robert Haigh]

We each have our own style and manner of writing. Some more creative than others, but we each have a voice, and something worth saying. Whether this poem took hours to compose, or was written almost totally off the cuff, hardly matters. What does matter is that it is a highly expressive piece, with some superb poetic imagery! A true poem! Excellent!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your very kind review, Robert,
j.

[Patricia Wedel]

dear Jacob.. a persons true Greatness is judged by their Humility. Amen… Pat

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, Pat,
j.

[lightsong]

The last verse in my belief is so much like You :>. this is brilliant and smart and You fooled us lol. we are the same, sometimes we throw words on pages, other times we spend hours and hours working on it, but as always what matter is the heart and the sincere emotions, nothing can fool that :> an amazing piece.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, lightsong,
j.

[Gee]

It amazes me, even though It shouldn't, that folk can spend days, weeks even writing and editing just one piece of poetry/pride when most if not all of my offerings are penned in the hour before I shoot off to work( perhaps this shows!)
Love the last 6 lines Jacob :))
Hope you are well

[jacob erin-cilberto]

if I spent that much time on a poem, it would not write itself...I do them in bunches, in a span of 20 minutes, 4 or 5...it's there and then it isn't.
I am just a conduit for the words to find paper...I doubt I know where they come from.
Frank O'Hara wrote that way....getting into a zone.
I always had to write my school essays the same way...all at once, boom...or they never would make sense...so I am guilty of just throwing them on the parchment...maybe recklessly.
thank you, Gee,
j.

[Travis Gibson (poetic h..]

As usual, you show us all how it's done! Great write, and even better concept.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, Travis.
j.

[keith]

you have paper you have pencil. scribbles come; slash marks the NOs. word salad the main course!
been there we've all done that!
or
thoughtful time spent in composition. it appears complete as it hits the paper.
everybody does it as they do
good rite jacob

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, keith,
j.