Blogs and Poems

            I worry about the poem with the advent of the blog. More specifically, I worry about my poems for I haven’t written any in some time.

            The ideas I’ve used in the past for poems are now blogs. Sometimes I think the poem is dead, although I know in my heart the poem will never die. Some of my favorite poems are over a thousand years old. I love the simplicity of the Chinese poets. Simplicity is a knife to Filet Mignon. A knife cuts through the fancy title and reveals flesh as flesh. Of course every poet is different and every poem is unique, generally speaking. I suppose if you break it down, if you simplify it, what separates the poem from the blog in this instance is the formatting.