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This Poem was Submitted By: Dellena Rovito On Date: 2008-11-12 23:21:39 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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P O P C O R N

Like popcorn popping Words burst onto the page Perfectly heated, the hull once strong and dense Builds pressure to expand and yield Turning soft and pliable Exploding quickly There's rush to capture Momentarily the thrust will be over Writing with fury before impetus is lost Popcorn easily burns left unattended Kernels of thought Freshly released Are greased by intellect's oil Buttered flavorful by sentiment Tenderness is equal to its quality

This Poem was Critiqued By: Duane J Jackson On Date: 2008-12-04 22:00:53
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 9.50000
Hi Dellena, The art of poetry likened to the popping of popcorn. This is a very fresh angle with some very intellectual and thought provoking imagery. 'Buttered flavorful by sentiment/Tenderness is equal to its quality' - serve me more. I enjoyed the read and appreciate its depth. Well thought out. Duane.

This Poem was Critiqued By: Claire H. Currier On Date: 2008-11-24 08:28:06
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
love how you have put the popping of corn together with the creation of poetry....certainly does the deed as you have penned. I can actually smell the fresh popped corn and still see myself lying in bed hearing all those words popping out at me so I have to find pen and paper to mark it all down. So this old gal does not forget.......you are so very clever my friend. Prayers flow your way for renewed health and strength.....enjoy the coming holidays.......we all have so much to be thankful for even in todays' economy. God Bless, Claire

This Poem was Critiqued By: James C. Horak On Date: 2008-11-13 08:48:14
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
A poem of simile yet to the extent some parallelism is engaged. Well explained by sharing an insight into how one perceives their Muse. Where inspiration, like a dreamscape, is to be taken at its moment like a dream at waking. (Now you have me doing it.) Sometimes we are bringing inspiration to our intellect by our emotion. But a little later that emotion might decline and the intellect has its own transitory way of dispensing value. The comparison with POPCORN thus carries very well and the parallels you draw as simile and euphemism poetic reenforcements. In the first verse, an almost study of popping describes your own sharing of insight into how, like the mystifying nature that corn can pop, the epiphany of idea brings us to pen a poem...equally mystifying, sometimes explosively, then, "Turning soft and pliable" as we sort it out. The final line, "Tenderness is equal to its quality" recalls the line in Shakespeare's, Julius Caesar, where Marcus Antony repines the loss of Caesar to the mob about "the quality of mercy". Or of another famous line of taking a thing at its very start. And, yes, all things are not equal. Well said. JCH

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