Showing posts with label Monica Ferrell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monica Ferrell. Show all posts

Monday, May 27, 2013

Poetry (Monica Ferrell)

Today's poem by Monica Ferrell is an ars poetica! (That's a poem about poetry.)

It's also a sonnet at 14 lines. It's fine as a poem, but it's not surprising; it does not take a new angle on things (for me, that is). So, therefore, I find it to be a rather boring poem.


I'm a little uncertain why the last line has that triplicate rhyme/assonance. It's  cool in that it does signify the end of the poem, but it seems so much lighter in tone and out of place. I guess it is there as a nod to poetic form (perhaps, the ars poetica and sonnet are other nods).

Favorite line: "I am not afraid of mirrors or the future"
I am not afraid of mirrors or the future