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Splash No. 148 - Poetry

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Subscribe Past Issues RSS Translate View this email in your browser Poetry In school, I never got poetry. Just the mention of iambic pentameter or rhyme schemes was enough for my eyes to glaze over, Krispy Kreme style. My brain couldn’t understand why anyone other than Dr. Seuss thought that rhyming their words helped their message. And Dr. Seuss made up half the words anyways, so the restriction seemed unhelpful at best. To music, it made more sense — when rhymes just had to be close enough, and no one cared that nothing technically rhymes with orange. The way I saw it, poetry was too highbrow for someone like me, who just wanted to understand. “Just say what you want to say!” I thought constantly. Since I left the public education system, I’ve warmed up to the genre, as some of the poems from my schooling rise back up from deep within my subconscious. One that constantly comes to mind is this William Carlos Williams’s (yes, that’s his real name) poem This Is Just To Say I have

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