by Buffy Aakaash, Editor of The Mountain Troubadour

We’ve all had the experience of reading a poem and not quite “getting” it. Before the written word, poets used certain tools that facilitated memorization and live performance, and also directed the reader toward “getting it.” Early set forms of poetry were pleasing to the ears and their appearance on a page delightful to see. Today poems are still performed, but “writing poetry” has become the norm, and the forms more fluid and free. Formal or free, poems have certain elements that have stood the test of millenniums and give poems their power and effectiveness.

Go to Buffy’s Blog, The Poetic Drift and find out more about five of those elements, what questions to ask, and how to enrich your reading of any poem…

The Poetic Drift at https://www.buffyaakaashpoetry.com/