Eric Shelman

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Eric Shelman was first intrigued by poetry shortly after he read 'The Raven' by Edgar Allen Poe, which had been back in eighth grade (1999) . He started writing prose after reading this amazing poem that could be interpreted in so many ways. He absolutely loved this poem so much that he began writing prose and knew that from that point on he wanted to become a poet/author/prose writer as well. As an adolescent he was never fond of form or styles of poetry thus he wrote prose because he thought that forms were to binding, in which they would deny the poet his right to creativity because he had to write a certain way. He continued to write prose until he was twenty-two years old and while serving in the United States Navy, he met a good friend that thoroughly convinced him that if he were to learn form that he could eventually make his own by either clashing forms together or by intentionally messing them up. Thus he began to traditional forms such as acrostics, double acrostics, diamantes, haikus, sonnet without iambic pentameter, quatrains, and he eventually made two of his own forms that he calls triple acrostic-diamantes, and dense alphabet poems as well.)

The Best Poem Of Eric Shelman

Death

Dwindling to nothing
Eating little of
Anything due to
The blandness of food’s taste
Helping the environment by becoming fertilized soil.

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