I Am a Creative
by Job Conger
written 11:45 pm, February 18, 2009
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Happy the soul who brandishes a pen,
Jousting with the world like horseback-knightly men,
Mightier than sword, with lyric acumen.
I am a creative writata.
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Some engage the craft by the dawn’s early light;
Others under candle glow round midnight.
Boozy musers ramble while higher than a kite.
I am a creative writata.
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Hurts can be assuaged in metric sublimation.
Laughter spread to others in rhymed jubilation –
What I did last summer with my parents on vacation.
I am a creative writata.
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What a great pursuit for people so inclined,
Groping through the fog to harvest fruit for the mind,
Processing the crude and making it refined.
I am a creative writata.
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Don’t think I’m literary. You’d be wrong.
Most of what comes out from me comes in song.
Poetry pentameters make me strong.
I am a creative writata.
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Now that good people are starting to subscribe to Honey & Quinine, and now that I’m not writing as much poetry as I used to write, I remain as enthusiastic about poems I wrote years ago as I was years ago. Some of my poems I neither like nor dislike. Those poems I am satisfied to accept. This is a poem I’d include in a list of my top 20 best.
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The high-brow touch of “writata” which I usually speak as “wriTA-TA” like yo=HO-HO and sis-BOOM-BA. I’m not a big fan of the poetry academes who take special pride in the poetic “wuks ta ta” if they can classify them with Latin-rooted pidgeon=names. “I Am A Creative” is simply my way of making fun of things I’m too foggy in my belfry to understand.
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It’s ALMOST a song. At first I accompanied myself and sang it. These days I don’t touch the guitar and I sing it without accompaniment. The guitar gets in the way. My friend Barbara has commented favorably about it. She likes it, and I hope you do too.
