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Instead of a full-fledged journal
entry today, I think I'd rather do a
little poetry reading for everyone…Hey,
I heard that. Stop your whining.
Although I'm fairly ignorant
and unskilled in the Poetry Arena (the
reading, the reciting, and the writing
of poetry), I do have a couple of poems
that I kind of get off on. The first
one is by the late Jim Morrison. Yeah,
that Jim Morrison. The Doors
guy. Although most of his poetry seems
to fall somewhere between overly-forced
clashing imagery and drug-induced Native
American themes, Morrison does have one
poem that just knocks me out. I love
it. I love it for the simple passion
contained in 5 centered lines. It's
great:
There was preserved
in her
The fresh miracle
of
surprise
The second poem is a stupid
throwaway knock-off of an old nursery
rhyme. But I think it's funny. And ironic.
And it still makes me laugh. I have no
idea who came up with this version of
it, but it's pure genius at work:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Some poems rhyme,
And some don't.
Like I said, I'm
poetically-challenged, but somehow those
two poems speak to me. Actually, they
speak for me. Each in its own
way sums up the ol' Glennster quite
nicely. I like that.
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