Poetry: The Sad Artist

Poetry: "Inversion in Green" by Benjamin Renné | Frontier Poetry - Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry

It’s not immediately clear what the inversion in Benjamin Renne’s poem is referring to, but as the poem sparks from line to line with its remarkable energy, it becomes impossible to ignore the clear animosity Renne’s speaker seems to hold towards what feels like a murky blurring of character and plant life. Inversion in Green So you thought you could become suddenly a june berry tree, unkempt & multifoliate like the one outside our bedroom windo…

Poetry: The Sad Artist

Out of the saddest minds Comes the greatest creativity I wonder why that is– Is it because there are   No boundaries set in our minds? Is it because  We live 100 lives In 1 lifetime? Is it because we are easily  Inspired by devastation and loss? It is because pain and sadness Flows out of us More easily than others