Speak

Speak

grafting

splicing

hyphenated logic

poetry is a deep impart

of misappropriated feelings

fostered from tattered truth

tattooed on a stone wall

that just can't be moved

unless the wall is destroyed

and reconstructed with due diligence

not a silent pen.

erin-cilberto

7/30/22

Reviews

[duff]

I dig it Jacob. Get the words out. Let your mind explode. Speak loudly.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, duff,
j.

[Temperance]

Don't you think that most poets use writing as a catharsis? A way of purging their hearts, minds and, in some cases, their souls? To worry about structure, syntax, etc. is secondary to getting the words/thoughts down. A thought-provoking piece, Mr. j. Thank you! Temp

[jacob erin-cilberto]

absolutely true, and sometimes form overwhelms content or the idea of content.
that is why I have always loved the Beats...they strayed from form...went free verse and really said something.
thank you, Temp.
j.

[Temperance]

My pleasure. I continue to learn on this site. I write what I feel with a rhythm, even free-verse, that works for the way I read. I don't know enough to know that I'm not doing it right. Haha!

[redzone]

while I was reading that first verse, I kept thinking, what a great way of say everyone writes what they believe, how they see the world from a personal perspective.... and in the second verse how difficult it is sometimes to get people to understand a different perspective.... walls must come down either people having the ah-ha moment or by having their walls destroyed by the very reality they say they know, but really don't know at all.... and as poets, our pens should never be silent in this whole prosses.... it also made me think about how hard it must be to be a teacher, especially when kids are so stubborn about learning anything other than what they read on social media.... lol.... and of course have to unlearn when faced with the real world.... anyway Jacob, I really appreciate your poem and dvery loud pen!!!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words, Curt.
j.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

I like this but I don't see why the feelings have to be "misappropriated". Surely there must be some aspiration of the spirit, lifting meager flesh and bone beyond its base instincts and human foibles. In my opinion, that's what poetry should do; lift us up, enlighten, encourage, inspire and yes, even educate. Oh, certainly there are poems of the human experience, man's inhumanity to man and the sufferings of anxiety, fear, depression and worry. But the poems I enjoy the most are those which bring sunshine to the soul, penetrating the cracks of our human existence to light up the whole of our inner spirits. Perhaps I'm just an incurable optimist, hoping both the best for myself and my fellow man. But I'll continue to speak regardless of whether or not anyone is listening, anyone at all. Because it's all I can do. I'm just a poet but the condition seems to be chronic. ;)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, a chronic condition...and your poems are certainly optimistic...and I appreciate them.
j.

[danielle.]

Expressing words in poetry, I feel is an entirely different language to what would be spoken, in conversation for example. For me, my writing is for myself firstly. Often wish I could explain things in spoken words more easily than I do in the tattered truths of my poems!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I remember a character in a film who was a writer and said "why is it that the best things we write are those we write for ourselves not for others?"
so true.
thank you, elle,
j.

[Chris Shaw]

Walls are boundaries. Castle walls keep the bad out and the good in. That's what history has taught me. There are still many castles and ruins remaining. My mind wandered J with your words.

Chris

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for taking me where you went with this piece, Chris,
j.

[W. Barrett Munn]

So you build rebuild the wall with stones of diction and syntax in order for the tattoo to look like you visualize it should look, or should I say sound. Interesting and accurate description, I think.
W.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind review, Winston,
j.