Poetry

“grandfather on God and Richmond, right-justified”, a poem (not mine)

Posted by Rose Schwartz on Mar 10, 2011 in Poetry | 2 comments

I came across this poem and found it very interesting. I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with poetry. I used to write it a lot, most of which was fairly crappy. I studied creative writing as my second major in college (no minor). I took a poetry class but decided to go the route of short fiction. I did, however, meet with one of my professors for a period of time to discuss my poetry and learned some valuable assets. And I learned how easily good poetry can go bad. All this...

Atheist Poetry, my own that is.

Posted by Rose Schwartz on May 19, 2009 in Poetry | 0 comments

I haven’t been writing much poetry these days, but I was going through my Google Docs, only to stumble upon a few old poems. Since they are inspired by my atheist world view and/or my love of education » science » evolution… (The Goods of) Time Never plentiful enough; always far too much So quick to slur, slowly blur And jump ahead- Ticking away, picking At the hands of the Clock Who keeps Changing the gears. [Written: August 14, 2006] This poem refers to the idea that the only...