Contemporary short poetry

by Roald Sinissaar »

Welcome. Read the following and consider what emotions these short poems invoke within the deepest depths of your heart. Try reaching further than you’re accustomed to. Feel the power of poetry.

UNLESS
ONLY
STAY

DON’T
OR
WANT

WERE TO
SHOULD
HAPPENED

HADN’T BEEN
BUT
HADN’T HELPED

PROVIDED
LONG
ONLY

Deep? Complicated? Poetic?

These three-line “poems” were taken from a grammar book (_Advanced Language Practice, page 51, ex. 5_). Just goes to show that modern (in the manhattan-cosmopolitan-$0-rebel kind of way “modern”) poetry is crap beyond belief.

About the author

Roald-Henrik Sinissaar is a student slash freelance designer slash creative dimwit, who, in addition to designing this blog, has put the better part of his better years into creative tasks administered by higher powers.

And he shall never again speak of himself in the third person.