Thursday, August 11, 2005

The Poet

The Return (February 2004 – March 2005)

Warning: This poem is full of clichés and abstractions. Do not try this at home.


The poem #10

The Poet

Perhaps you might have seen him before
Out alone on the street
Easing his way among faceless crowds
Touching every alternate lamp-posts
Indifferent to his surroundings
Creating poems in his head

Voices unheard by others
Echoing the craving Muse within
Retreating to his private haven, gladly
Surrenders his sanity in exchange for
Endless poetic verse

The story behind this poem

This is my last poem in “The Return” phase. Actually I don’t want to post this because I wrote it as an exercise in another online poetry forum. By the way, this is an acrostic poem. :)

5 comments:

dsnake1 said...

Hi DP,
quite difficult to write an acrostic poem, right? I find it so.

Bluesky_Liz said...

I can relate to this piece well. That's sometimes me walking around downtown with the weekend crowd and yet still lost in my own thoughts.

Alson Teo said...

Yup dsnake1.

It is indeed not easy but the process is really fun. :)

Alson Teo said...

Hi Liz,

Somtimes those around me thought I am mad. It is so easy to lost in your own thoughts when you are thinking/reading a poem. :)

SilverMoon said...

POETIC VERSE acrostic yes-
It isn't easy to write an acrostic poem that also says more, but you did! I'm often lost in my own thoughts... I'm so zany....~~~~~ @~~~~~ Looking foward to seeing the next version of this if you decide to change it after advice.