Poems–A. Baez

Poems–A. Baez

A collection of poetry featuring formal styles

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Tag: philosophy

May 10, 2020June 22, 2020 worldwordwebber

To Bated Spring

May 9, 2020June 11, 2020 worldwordwebber

The Formal Gardens, and Beyond

April 18, 2020April 19, 2020 worldwordwebber

What Holds?

March 29, 2020April 12, 2020 worldwordwebber

Words from Within

March 22, 2020March 26, 2020 worldwordwebber

After the Walk

November 9, 2019March 26, 2020 worldwordwebber

“Today I know that life is but a dream”

February 25, 2018May 3, 2020 worldwordwebber

Chats with an Attractive Sophist

February 25, 2018May 3, 2020 worldwordwebber

Pillow Talk

February 25, 2018October 16, 2019 worldwordwebber

Codex Vitae

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Welcome to my blog!

This site is intended not so much as a blog as a slowly evolving collection of poems. Most often (with a few recent lucky exceptions!), I must employ a “slow marinade” style to produce a decent poem. Greater precision, plus layers of insight, perspective, nuance, wordplay, and sonance, typically take weeks, months, even years to reveal themselves.

In recent decades, I have worked mainly in formal styles; I’ve found that they can focus, develop, and give structure to my thoughts in a way that I usually need and that free forms simply cannot. Also, I’ve always loved the rich layers of musicality, complexity, emotional resonance, and beauty that seem uniquely possible to achieve in formal idioms.

Of the widely accepted poetic forms, I’ve found the sonnet to be especially versatile. I also have come to relish the creative challenge and discipline of devising custom forms that reflect the individual qualities of particular subjects.

I give many thanks to all the poets and friends who have helped me with their constructive criticism over the years.  A surprisingly large measure of the content here is traceable either directly or indirectly to them. You, my reader, may help in the same way by posting comments and critiques for any poem in the reply section beneath it; I will thank you for it. It takes a village to raise a poem!

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

–Oscar Wilde

 

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