Posts Tagged Poet
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston I compose poetry for those of us not schooled at University, even though some of us took an English Literature core course. I can be serious or write a poem that is filled with humor. Both are interesting for the poet, and one style may become the other as the muse driving the i...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston The art of poetry seems to be divided, in fact, and in fancy with line endings and the spacing of the resulting verse. But there is also a ferocity involved. First, there is a ferocious knowledge of language and its usages. A dictionary refers to ferocious as wild, the way we usu...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston The business of writing seeks more polish from those of us doing it as prose or poetry for the public. We need to search for memorable or clever lines. Words to enhance meaning in ideas we try to make known. Tried and true for poetry, at least, is to record, paper or tape, the...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston As the summer season moves away from us, and schools open even in the heat of the early fall, I am thinking about some beauty here – and gone as seasons show themselves. Some of you had plenty of water for the floral displays you plant and supervise. Some of our friends and n...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston ....the major hurdle for a poem and its creator poet is publication. Get that poem or book of poems on paper and, more important, get it “out there.” What makes spring come? Depends on whom you ask; the calendar and established dates on it; the solar inferences. Whatever,...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston By the time our calendars turn to September, we continue some kind of transition; easiest to point to the Fall season, approaching on a certain date. Our midwest change is nature, and it contains hallmarks of happenings in our lives – kids and school, a constant with a week or ...
