I don’t have any training in poetry, so I googled poetry to see what it is. This is the definition I found: “literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm”. I’m going to say what I do when I say I’m writing poetry matches this definition. I’ve put together some descriptive phrases for my poetry: some are painful to squeeze out, some write themselves, some take on a life of their own, some are contorted, surprising, masterful, amateur, profound, arcane, weird, but not all at once. That is for the reader to judge. Rather than titles, I’ve decided to just number them. They are short (at least for now) and they are their own title. I found a source of about 500 words. I put them in a spreadsheet and randomly sorted them and put them in groups of 5. Here are a few more. The first two are from someone else’s grouping.
4 avarice ambition envy anger pride
Ambition and pride are precarious bedfellows
Are we yet winning
Avarice is the progeny of envy
Life again becomes a ring
Kindness conquers anger
It makes my heart sing
5 hello betrayal France lily flair
The world greets me and says hello
It has abandoned the old forms of betrayal
It displays a flair like never seen
A single lily is the best in France I have been
6 number frame exit art jockey
The number is just a frame of mind
Life is about the art, not the exit
We are just a jockey riding life to the sunset
The ride is all we have, exalt in it
Pete's Wisdom 