Writing Poetry (Progressive Poetry)

Okay I haven't posted very much lately, kinda been busy with things on my mind... apologies for those awaiting word... yeah like my readership exists... heh. Anyhow the post is somewhat rehash, I wrote this poem a month or 2 ago and already talked a bit about it. But I've managed to keep writing in a similar style and wanted to bring it up. I will be posting some new work shortly... So here goes...

Often times after hearing some really poignant lyrics or reading some powerful poetry I look at my stuff and sigh... I end up feeling that my writing seems pretty trite comparatively...

But lately my mind has sort of traversed a border and my writing seems a bit more on the experimental side, with more deliberate attempts at word crafting and so I actually feel pretty good about my writing.

Normally in the past I wrot in a fairly standard style. Meter, rhyming, often in sonnet form. I still do some of that, usually Shakespearean sonnets.

Now though I’ve somewhat tossed meter and rhyming out (though not entirely), taking a more progressive approach to writing. I am spending more time crafting lines and phrases with double meanings or paradoxical meaning, giving my work a more subjectively interpretive bent.

Here is an example, this is a poem call illusions and elusions.

with silver - lined deceits
subtle hopes are foiled - wrapped
secret desires trapped
wave then duck and dodge
smile and weave the mazes
glance but do not gaze
forgoing feelings do not think
reactions in armor polished
chrome - shielded souls vanished
wave then duck and dodge
smile and leave the mazes
no heart for one last gaze
fading in time spectral shadows
leave empty wonders behind
clattering remnants in the mind

Upon first glance this may read easily, but if one takes the time to associate the word pairings in different ways you can come up with different meanings.

Examples:

reactions in armor polished
One could interpret this to mean the reactions are polished, or that the armor is polished, that is why that word appears at the end of the line.

wave the mazes: weave could mean weave as in weaving through the mazes, or weaving (as in creating) the mazes.

it goes like that with more of the poem...
have fun if you want with it...

cheers
-Jack