Bread and Butter: A Collection of One Hundred Short Poems

By B K Neifert

In poetry, the bread and butter of any reader's delight is the short poem. It is the fundamental poem. And, a lot of times, those poems are very difficult. They need to be read several dozen times in order to fully be understood. It's why I take such enjoyment out of them, because a landscape could pop out at any moment, in full breadth; a hidden idea could emerge from the depths; or the full body of just really getting someone else could happen.---Finding out someone is deeper than ourselves, peering into us, as we listen to them and try to look up what every obscure vocabulary word means, what every proper noun is, what every mythological reference is to. And we have the glorious tool of the internet now, to make poetry a lot easier. So we don't have to scrounge around libraries anymore just to understand what an obscure reference means. Poetry is difficult, and it is meant to communicate a very strong, latent idea. Sometimes those ideas are feelings; other times those ideas are just complicated thoughts. But, we need them in a certain extent to grow as human beings. We need knowledge, we need understanding, and sometimes we need questions answered that we didn't even know were questions. This is why I read poetry, and why I write this piece, Bread and Butter, because a short poem is the bread and butter of any reader's repertoire. It is quick, digestible in an hour's worth of sitting down at the coffee shop, and it can help us learn something new, something hidden that is hard to understand, yet there it is.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1703637909
• ISBN13: 9781703637908
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"