Nine Things Poetry Can Do for You:
1. An individual poem is like a word-surprise package, when you unwrap the package you never know what you will find.
2. You may discover delight or dislike, love, insight, questions about death, answers to life.
3. It's up to the reader, you, to assign the bottom line.
4. When you encounter the poets observations, you may find answers to questions,
similar experiences and conclusions.
5. You may discover meanings about topics that you never considered before.
6. A proposition or definition may pop into your head that you've searched for,
or a word you read may invite you to look up its meaning.
7. You may enjoy the cadence of the words as they dance across your lips.
8. Living language can take you to new places and into someone else's mind
9. Poetry inspires.
There are many poets today with numerous ways of writing. If one experience is not
satisfactory for you, just move on. As musical tastes vary, so do tastes in poetry. Keep
exploring, you will eventually find poems on every topic, issue, or mood--all of which you
will find to be part of the human experience.
--e. smith sleigh, poet
Within the year, e. smith sleigh's poetry appeared or is forthcoming in
Paper Darts, Squalorly, Kumquat Poetry, Kaleidoscope, Words Fly Away,
Pankhearst’s Slimline Volume: No Love Lost, the 4th Issue of PRISM
'Ekphrasis', The Criterion, Orion, Silver Birch Press and elsewhere.
She won finalist designation in several literary and academic competitions
including Eastern Kentucky University’s academic journal Nine Patch:
A Creative Journal for Women and Gender Studies.
On her website, http://esmithsleigh.weebly.com/
she blogs about Post structuralism and poetry.