Lloyd+Schwartz


 * || ** A True Poem ** ||  ||
 * by [|Lloyd Schwartz] ||
 * I'm working on a poem that's so true, I can't show it to anyone.
 * I'm working on a poem that's so true, I can't show it to anyone.

I could never show it to anyone.

Because it says exactly what I think, and what I think scares me.

Sometimes it pleases me.

Usually it brings misery.

And this poem says exactly what I think.

What I think of myself, what I think of my friends, what I think about my lover.

Exactly.

Parts of it might please them, some of it might scare them.

Some of it might bring misery.

And I don't want to hurt them, I don't want to hurt them.

I don't want to hurt anybody.

I want everyone to love me.

Still, I keep working on it.

Why?

<span style="color: purple; font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">Why do I keep working on it?

<span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">Nobody will ever see it.

Nobody will ever see it.

<span style="color: #660066; font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">I keep working on it even though I can never show it to anybody.

<span style="color: #6600ff; font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt;">I keep working on it even though someone might get hurt. ||  ||

//<span style="color: #76923c; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">yes // //<span style="color: #76923c; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">no // //<span style="color: #76923c; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">maybe // //<span style="color: #76923c; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">sometimes // //<span style="color: #76923c; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">always // //<span style="color: #76923c; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">never //
 * Six Words By: Lloyd Schwartz **

<span style="color: #92d050; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Never? //<span style="color: #92d050; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Yes. //<span style="color: #92d050; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Always? //<span style="color: #92d050; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">No. //<span style="color: #92d050; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Sometimes? //<span style="color: #92d050; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Maybe— //

//<span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">maybe // //<span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">never // //<span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">sometimes. //<span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Yes— no always:

<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">always maybe. //<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">No— // //<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">never // //<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">yes. //<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Sometimes,

<span style="color: #76923c; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">sometimes (always) yes. //<span style="color: #76923c; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Maybe // //<span style="color: #76923c; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">never. . . //<span style="color: #76923c; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> No,

no— sometimes. //<span style="color: #76923c; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Never. //<span style="color: #76923c; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Always? //<span style="color: #76923c; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Maybe. //<span style="color: #76923c; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Yes—

<span style="color: #92d050; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">yes no maybe sometimes always never.

For Ralph Hamilton <span style="color: #632423; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center;">“I was sitting in her living room, Looking very hard at the painting I had given her. I asked her for a knife, and very deliberately Cut up the canvas.She was furios; I told her, ‘ I’ll paint you a good one.’
 * Self Portrait

<span style="color: #943634; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center;">--Every paitning is a self portrait.

I always straighten the pictures on people’s walls.

<span style="color: red; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center;">I live at home, Painting while my parents are away at work. I cook their dinner. It’s a compromise, But it’s the only way I can afford to work; Better to compromise My life. And if I suffer-- So much the better;not Easy.

<span style="color: #632423; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center;">They’re amazingly patient— My mother thinks I’m a ‘great artist.’ My paintings are all over the walls, Mostly piled up against the window In the dining room. (The dining room Hasn’t seen the light of day in three years.)

<span style="color: #943634; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center;">I read a lot, when I’m not painting, And play the piano-- badly. I’m fascinated by words. Some of my paintings Have words in them: AWAY. . . GET WELL. In college, I wrote my autobiography.

<span style="color: #c00000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center;">I’ve been commissioned to do a portrait - - I’ve done several; But I shouldn’t do them, I don’t know how. Every portrait Becomes just another painting. . .”

<span style="color: red; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center;">In your self portrait, The blindsare open, but you are looking Away; your eyes green, and enormous. There is a sunny street outside- - Grey and black shadows cover your face;your mouth Twisted with irony, otr tenderness’ Refusing to speak. You say, “ It’s just another painting” A train dissapearign over a hill; A burnt-out house; two trucks colliding In mid-air; Your father; your mother ; a baby; <span style="color: #c00000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center;">A chair; a hand on a venetian blind… <span style="color: red; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center;">“Every painting is a self-portrait.” ||

Critic Corner __ Six Words __ “It makes me laugh and smile. A whole poem of just six words! I also see our own thought process in it. We all debate things in our lives and we go through this same process when we try to figure out what to do. I laugh because it captures my feelings exactly and at how my debating looks on paper.” ~ Poets Daily __ True Poem __ “Whenever we write anything we always risk offending someone. Schwartz’s poem states all we feel when we write a poem. What we write may come from our heart and may be what we feel deep down in our heart and soul but there is always a chance that it hurts someone. It satisfies our spirit when we write down our feelings, even if no one will see it or if someone might get hurt.” ~ Poet Lovers Magazine __ Self Portrait __ “This poems talks of our feelings whenever we do something others say we are good at. We always get frustrated and want to tear it up even when others say it is good. I don’t particularly like the last 2 stanzas but I do like the ending line. “Every painting is a self portrait.” In every painting we see parts of the painter come alive. Even in writing novels, essays, or poems. When we make a “work of art” we put a little piece of ourselves into it.” ~ Deep Thinker’s Blog of Poems

· __ Onomatopoeia __ · __ Rhyme __ -In true poem the ends of certain lines rhyme, or sound the same · __ Alliteration __ · __ Metaphor __ - In self portrait Schwartz compares “you” to a self portrait · __ Simile __ · __ Personification __ · __ Hyperbole __
 * POETS ART **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Rhyme scheme- Six words:-abcdef faebdc cfdae ecbfad deacfb bdfeca abedcf True poem:-abc bc def f g dh ie J d klm no ppq pr f s t s s s usq uvp Self poprtrait:-abcdg h ij klmlmnopq rstuav wxwyz1 2342w h567890w !@#$%h

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed','serif'; text-align: center;">Lloyd Schwartz · <span style="font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Light','sans-serif';">Lloyd Schwartz was born on November 29,1941 in Brooklyn, New York · <span style="font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Light','sans-serif';">He graduated from Queens College of the City of New York in 1962 · <span style="font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Light','sans-serif';">Earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1976 · <span style="font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Light','sans-serif';">1944 was awarded the Pulitzer prixe4 for criticism.



Bibliography __ Issue 11 The Cortland Review. __ 3 March 2010 <http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/11/schwartz11.htm>. __ Poets.Org. __ 1,2,3,4,5 March 2010 <http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20167>. __ These People Lloyd Schwartz Weslyan University Press Middletown,Connecticut Copyright 1973,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981 by Lloyd Schwartz. __ 3 March 2010 <http://capa.conncoll.edu/schwartz.these.htm#self>.