Anti-Poetry is a poetry book that breaks all the rules. Filled with "Anti-Poems" written from the deepest depths of my soul and without limitations. Foreward: I did not set out to write a book. This all started with me trying to find an outlet for the thoughts floating around my "tortured mind". I stumbled upon the medium of poetry not because I loved it, but because I hated it! ...(at the time). "Poetry" can be confusing. I felt that poetry was a restrictive medium masquerading as the opposite. There seemed to be ...
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Anti-Poetry is a poetry book that breaks all the rules. Filled with "Anti-Poems" written from the deepest depths of my soul and without limitations. Foreward: I did not set out to write a book. This all started with me trying to find an outlet for the thoughts floating around my "tortured mind". I stumbled upon the medium of poetry not because I loved it, but because I hated it! ...(at the time). "Poetry" can be confusing. I felt that poetry was a restrictive medium masquerading as the opposite. There seemed to be patterns and rules to follow for what makes a "good poem". In plain sight, trends became unspoken rules over time. And yet I do love the essence of the medium: the expression of indescribable phenomena; Human Emotions . And so I decided one day after writing many poems that seemed to break all the rules of poetry, to write a book, because something interesting started happening: I began to love these poems that I hated. Understand that the words in this book do not intentionally adhere- at least not consciously- to one theme or structure. These are a bunch of words I wrote that made me feel something, or rather connected me a bit closer to what I was feeling as I wrote them. And so, what started out as my little "punk-poetry" experiment became something much more beautiful than I had intended. There are real poems in here, not just ones I created to break the rules of poetry. Some are weird, some are bad, some are beautiful, some are ugly, some are more like journal entries. Some, you may not consider "poetry" at all. Whether you love, hate, are confused by, or inspired by these Anti-Poems, just know they came from an unfiltered heart. I hope you enjoy at least one. Thank you for reading my first book - "Anti-Poetry". Love, Jihad
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