My Poetry, The Naked Truth! by Mike K2 Free form... real free! |
you glimpses of me exposed. Through a poem that I lovingly composed. There are times I just let it all hang out. As a prosey rant that I find something to which, I must shout. Sometimes my poetry conjures that free feeling of skinny dipping. Once I even made my words warmer, by talking about sweat as if it was champaign for the sipping. I also enjoy poking a little humor your way. It pleases me when you said, that I made you laugh today. It even helps me when I become coy and frolic around. I can tell my reviewers like it too, as the compliments abound. I am only too happy to share the inspirations and techniques in my poetry. Until you want to get personal and try to find out if I do it in my nudity. "Do you write you poetry in the nude?" How do you answer a question so penetrating and crude? I assured him that I write after I come home from work and myself and ideas are clothed and wrapped tightly. He told me he didn't believe me, got more excited and asked why that thought would be unsightly. "What about when it's late at night and you write with inspirations engorged." It never crossed my mind, whether to write naked or not. Besides what business is it of yours? "You got together with your fellow poets and friends. Surely you all ended up naked in the end?" It's funny all of my poet friends are like me, the normal kind. Coming up with the idea to write in the nude didn't even cross my mind. Poets write about freedoms, but don't run around the fields wild and free. Among us, wasn't even one acid dropping beatnik or hippie. I am glad that I didn't ask, because if I posed that question after all; I bet the only nakedness would be my newly tanned hide on my favorite cowgirl's wall. I don't even recall mention of those greats, the classical Greeks... Time to walk away from you, my weird-perverted geek! I love to be appreciated and discuss poetry with my fans. Just don't let your ideas get out of hand. As you can plainly see, typing about nude wouldn't be very safe for me. |
Author Notes I apologize for the Kleenex box slippers. I had to use them because I was talking with my favorite FanStory sweetheart and mentioned that I write with the passion and impulsiveness of Howard Hughes. She laughingly responded, "Ha Ha, I can see you there with your Kleenex boxes for slippers." I just had to induldge that image. The most interesting thing is that I have a bit of a local fan base brewing with poetry. I just garnered a little interest and for the most part it is a very nice thing. The ask me about the latest ideas and I find them encouraging. Then someone comes along and makes you wonder if you really want to be known more then you are. This poem was created with some of the real conversation, but more of some of the replies that I wanted to say, but didn't with the fear of encouraging this conversation. When I speak of incorporating a "FM," element to poetry, I am talking of being yourself in delivery, a little offbeat base to illustrate the direction that you want to go and just make it so people can relaxingly identify with the poem. As opposed to how you feel a great poet should speak. Not, become an FM radio personality having to deal with fans that are weird and offbeat... Even scary at times. I wrote this one for the poets to have a laugh at this awkward type of moment. After that guy, I would have put the pen down for a while, but another person who was a fan, pointed me out to her coworker and I use that time to develop a performance. What encourages me is that she stressed that when I perform, she has to know as she would love to see it. |
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