My Poetry

I don't write about mysticism

Or the ethereal

The elements man can only dream about

Until he reaches the other side

I don't often write about nature

And art

Much less high art

things only a sophist contemplates

I don't write in the style of Shakespeare or Marvel

Or Auden or Eliot

I have my own rhythm and rhyme scheme

I'm a simple girl

With simple thoughts with an ordinary mind

Living in ordinary times

And my writing resembles my feelings

From day to day

And moment to moment

And it may offend some

And bore others

But it's my writing

And "it little profits" that a line of writing

Is read without understanding.

Jennifer 4-24-11