Insights From Life

<p>Steven L. Getz only entered one poetry contest in my life and he won it. That poem written in Middle School is now lost to history. Fifty years later he composed his next two poems entitled The Colored Lens of life and My Three-Man Chorus. Several others followed in quick succession. Sometimes he composes several poems in a day. Other times he goes months without composing because he gets preoccupied with other things. Steven rarely creates rambling semi-abstract poems (especially odes) because he considers most of them to be boring. How many poems that lasted more than two pages have you actually read all the way through? </p><p>Truly popular poems are ageless. Poems such as First Fig by Edna St Vincent Millay Fog by Carl Sandburg and The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost as well as Things I didn't Say by Shel Silverstein basically prove this. Those one-page poems talk about the 'always' of life and nature not the 'present' that tends to prejudice our views. More importantly great poems talk about human nature even though their depiction of human nature is sometimes somewhat cryptic. Steven rarely runs out of words or ideas because he writes about life which is ever-changing.</p>