Poetry Matters
I Like To Blend Poetry & Song Lyrics
The Makings of a Lyrical Poetess
5 min readJan 10, 2022
My close readers comment on the lyrical nature of my poetry. I rarely conform to traditions, and mostly, play with pop music allusions, rhyme, rhythm, imagery, wordplay, and repetition. Often, I end up embedding an allusion to a well-known song in the poem, or I write the poem in a musical manner.