It's good and dead, long live zombie poetry.

I know it’s been ages since I’ve replied to anything here.   I had the shingles and I was real bitchy and I didn’t have anything positive to say;)

Leanne, you always bring up interesting subjects for discussion.  I’m trying to leave “I” out of my poems for the most part.  Why, because “I” is boring.   We all need to make each word count which means thinking and even using a dictionary or thesaurus, if needed.  I also think as writers, we need to separate ourselves from our written word.  Once you put it out there, it doesn’t belong to you anymore, it belongs to the reader to interpret.  And what you think you said and what you actually said or two different things.

I don’t want to be a dead zombie poet but I know they’re out there sucking the metaphors out of poetry like a mindless black hole.  Cover yourselves with garlic and go towards the light.