Steve’s Poetry
I’ve been writing poetry off-and-on since the early 1980s. I hadn’t written anything really good, however, until 1992, when I wrote “Shackles of a Life,” the poem that introduced me to Denise.
Writing poetry is a lot like playing Russian Roulette in reverse: Five out of six poems, upon later re-reading, turn out to be deadly awful. But now, after setting the pen down for about three years, I think some of what I’ve written since I started again in 2006 ranks among the best I’ve ever done.
I have completely revised the poetry pages on this site to reflect this: First, I re-read all of my past work; then I typed dozens of poems I had previously not gotten to; next I sorted them, first into the rough categories of Life, Love, and Laughter, then again by date so the newest would always appear at the top of the page; and then I selected from among them only the best to represent my work.
Lastly I created a fourth category, Library, in which I have placed all of the poems I felt weren’t quite as good. These are not the stinkers I rejected altogether for the site. They are simply a little too long, a little pretentious, or a little awkward. Perhaps they simply fell a bit short of my intended target. I still felt they were good enough, however, to archive for interested readers. I think of them as B sides.
Steve
April 2, 2007
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