Why I Smoke Poem by Putholi Arumugham T
Why I Smoke
I smoke
to kill time
to create words
to relive pain
to refrain thoughts
I smoke
to dissolve into nature
to defelct away from crowd
to refresh from sex
to retain stress
I smoke
to awaken my dreams
to rejoice with friends
to comprehend love
to compliment liquor
I smoke
to realise inertia
to resonate with anger
to drain away life -
to die like a cigarette.
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4/25/2024 10:19:04 AM # 1.0.0.1119
Dear Putholi, As requested, I'm commenting on your poem 'why I smoke? ' The basic idea of the poem is the title. And you have gone to narrate it by repeatation of some words. Sometimes, this pay as an aliteration is created.or as a rhyming pattern. But, here your statement doesn't suggest anydirection save and except in last two lines, that too in negatives. Hope, you'll understand, try to use some metaphor or imageries to drive home your points, be it positive or negative. The reader will want more. Otherwise it's a good effort.Rated accordingly. Rajkumar