Join the Neopoet online poetry workshop and community to improve as a writer, meet fellow poets, and showcase your work. Sign up, submit your poetry, and get started.

Gem of a Diamond

Failure, sorrow and deprivation...
are the manures of exquisite poetry....
agree or don't,
remain silently so pleased....

Gems, are only produced
and diamonds,
when chiselled with sharply pointed angles...
to bring out the sheen,
the magnificence...

without which the Kohinoor,
would be like just any other stone,
may be
just a piece of charcoal....

Style / type: 
Free verse
Review Request (Intensity): 
I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back
Editing stage: 

Comments

Recipe for a gem-
A modicum of talent.
A generous helping of poetic knowledge.
Three very large cups of vocabulary (nb. store bought vocabularies won't do, you have to grow your own by always looking up words you don't know, although thesaurus assistance is allowable).
Stir, whisk, beat or smash together inside a large skull.
Allow to ferment with a few drops of imagination.
Optionally the fermentation process can be enhanced with psychoactive herbs and spices.
Serve to all humanity.
Enjoy!

cheers,
Jess
A new workshop on the most important element of poetry-
'Rhythm and Meter in Poetry'
https://www.neopoet.com/workshop/rhythm-and-meter-poetry

but coming from you first
is in in-itself
an honour
thanks

author comment

is good.
I was having a bit of a dig at you as well, over your 'POETIC Thesaurus' blog. That is not the way to improve your vocabulary. Honestly a Thesaurus helps a bit but reading extensively and always looking up the meaning of words you don't know whilst seeing them in context is the only way to learn.

cheers,
Jess
A new workshop on the most important element of poetry-
'Rhythm and Meter in Poetry'
https://www.neopoet.com/workshop/rhythm-and-meter-poetry

I wanted to make one
for others

when I DON'T know a word
I look up
and google
and
a normal guy who knows 2000 words
is to be classified as good
I know only 3000
yet I am no good
written four books ....only.

author comment

though I think you could be better. Of the ingredients I listed (talent, poetic knowledge, vocabulary, a large skull {intelligence}, imagination and mixing {including editing and revising}) only talent, a large skull and imagination are relatively fixed. The rest you can improve.

Quantity is not any measure of poetry. If you spent more time learning, reading and especially revising you could be so much better than just good. It's one of the reasons I get a tad impatient with you. If you wrote half as many poems but spent more time really considering, planning and working on them I think you could be great. Planning does not cramp spontaneity at all. You simply write it all down in the 'creative rush' then plan what to do with it.

Average vocabulary is around 15,000 so yours is probably about 30,000. Mine is probably in the vicinity of 60,000 (there are over 1,000,000 words in our language). Did you know that the reading of fiction specifically is as important as reading generally? People who read lots of fiction have bigger vocabs than those who read lots of non-fiction. This is because a wider range of vocabulary is typically used in fiction than in non-fiction writing. And, of course, a strict rule (the only rule I have ever assiduously obeyed in my life) is always look up any word you come across that you don't know. If you don't have a dictionary app on your phone you can always jot it down in the notebook that you, naturally, never leave the house without.

cheers,
Jess
A new workshop on the most important element of poetry-
'Rhythm and Meter in Poetry'
https://www.neopoet.com/workshop/rhythm-and-meter-poetry

for the education you give
I shall abide with it hence
as I have been since

your vocab surpasses my bald frame of mind
and
when you know me in reality
you will know
how time lapses
as in its folds
I AM ABOUT TO FOLD
thanks for the attention and your indulgence

I know not some words
but I use them out of instinct
these happen to unfurl
a stroke of passionate wisdom
I yet know not how ...

author comment
(c) Neopoet.com. No copyright is claimed by Neopoet to original member content.