Sometimes our verse can get tangled in our struggle
All my life I've been a poet,
I just didn't know it.
My personal struggle inside,
was taking me for a ride.
I had to call myself aside,
then deep down confide.
I started poeming during the melee,
so my verse went the same way.
I used poetry as a tool,
even started reacting like fool,
quite a few times I lost my cool.
I knew I wasn't right,
but it was on with whatever fight.
I won my struggle down deep,
hope the monster will keep.
I still get taxed,
but I've learn to be more relaxed.
Quite a few things got solved,
as my style of verse evolved.
My battle inside is under control,
so my verse can
shake, rattle and roll.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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