The Modern Poet
Photo courtesy of Meta Al. The modern poet, standing in the light of their forebears and future successors, their inspirations and their muses, their mind panderings and simple pleasures, formerly ready to speak to a page of paper with a pen or a pencil, now typing for their lives on keyboards both real or pixelated, ciphering their own lives into information as they understand it or comprehend in gist and opportunity, always in the moment, as the ideas of the writing pour themselves into phrases for consideration. Sometimes accepted, otherwise rejected, determined by their chosen hand. Some angered, some opposed with others natural and well meaning, submerging in the quiet softness that the experience offers them, all needing a place to be seen by a person with understanding, so often, simply the poet themselves, to fulfill what is otherwise not found in any other avenue of accomplishment. The genre itself so mutated in varying attributes among those willi...