I always apprehended reading poetry for fear of not being able to understand them. But recently, I was told to approach the task differently. The key is to let the words speak to you. Reading them out loud allows me to get into the core. Poetry can be subjected to interpretation due to its subjectivity. Authors can leave their poetry open to our imagination. Our own experience and the way we look at the world end up molding them. And that’s why subtlety plays an important role here. I think you have to be patient with poetry. You have to treat them like you would with a precious object. The scarcity of words requires our care.
The poems in Fruit are different from the kind of poetry I am used to reading now. I must admit that they were more challenging, but in a good way. They allowed me to expand my knowledge of the poetic genre. They are exquisitely written. They make you think, interrogate yourself, your observation of the world, and maybe critic it. Some, such as Stolen Parables iii and iv resonated with me as they seem to be some sort of whistle blower. But, I am not sure. Due to my minimal familiarity with poetry, I am guessing that some poems were more complex than my grasp of them, hence my need to reread them over and over again to fill in the blank. Maybe the idea of poetry is not to attempt unravelling the mystery at all.
Some of Geden’s poems have an earthy atmosphere. I was particularly interested in those that have a doomy feel. Here below is a glimpse of Fruit.
Sonnet
The art of measurement
Occurs in the everyday
Submission to pain
In variable light
And occasional dark
Ignorant of time
One more step ahead
It’s not so bad reality
There is a dryness
In the throat
The muscles strain
A furious dialogue
Wonders how the agony
Will end the pain will die
Fruit viii
There’s a defiance
In the toughness
Of your skin
Darkness carries
Its own rewards
Intricate your world
Tautened links
Run your veins
The rest of the world
Falsifies perfection
You leave behind
An abandoned shadow
Sinking like a home
I really love the last one. I related to it and I like that what I believe to be a fruit, maybe the apple from the cover (smile), resonated with me . When I read the first one above, it becomes mine. I don’t need to drop my baggage to understand it and to feel it.
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Lovely review! Thakns so much.
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That’s the beauty of poetry, the author may write about a specific subject, however the reader does not necessarily need to grasp onto that subject, but can create his/her own meaning. Other times, the writer may just be expressing emotions/feelings, without the intention of writing about a specific topic, simply for the sake of expression. And sometimes, the writer may be trying to work through feelings/emotions that have been surfacing, in an effort to understand what those feelings and emotions are about. There are other reasons why poets create a poem, these are just some reasons, born from my own experience, from my own need(s), as to why I write poetry.
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