i'll be a famous poet when i die

[grifter]

i’ll be a famous poet
when i die
and citizens will say
“my he had small i’s,
and jitterbugs
on his tongue”

they will smile
when i was crying
and they will frown
when i laughed

the educated
will find meaning
where there was none
and they’ll say
“he was great
at talking to books”

[thecrazybeautiful]

Interesting...

"'my he had small i’s,
and jitterbugs
on his tongue'"

I liked that.

[Laura]

"they will smile
when i was crying"

--I loved this, no, adored. It makes me think of me already ... how some things I have written people say it's lovely but I was truly depressed when I wrote it. That is why I hated it in school when the teachers would want to analyze a poem and they thought my thoughts were wrong. Nobody knows what the poet was feeling or what they meant except the poet! And most did not have conversations or explanations on their poetry so all those teachers can go f**k themselves !

Other wise, from what I get from it, you're talking about how everything gets more recognition and praise once the artist is dead. Why it works that way is beyond me. Appreciation should come when you're alive - when it matters. I'm probably rambling.

[grifter]

yeah all my favorite poets are dead

and yeah no one knows what someone was feeling or thinking for sure when you read a poem or look at a painting

most of the time you are looking at parts of your reflection that you have never seen before, projecting yourself into the words or colors

is it important to me that i never capitalize i, to me it is, but to someone else it might not be, or maybe it is but for a different reason, and that is wonderful

poetry, marks our experiences, it's the evolution of our soul, in loose pages, one of the deepest forms of self expression, and very much spiritual, lessened by people who ignore there own personal growth

jung said you can't learn anything about your self by sailing back and forth at the shore, (there are explanations, ,

[Only Me]

"they will smile
when i was crying
and they will frown
when i laughed"
My favorite lines, because of the irony.