Zapata

• Member since February 14, 2006.
• I have 6 poems

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• Submerge at allpoetry
  she soaked for hours at a time / never lit candles, put on music / or shared the tub / she cherished complete solitude / and the stillness of the water / at times I submerge my body / and

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• on 40,000 by Charles Bukowski, on April 29, 2005

  I had never heard of Charles Bukowski until a reader told me one of my poems had a similiarity to him, so yes it happens.
  A lot of people simply admire him and want to become as blunt and eloquent as him, but I don't see much of a poet if he's simply milking words. A poem is one thing, an original poem is another. I can't remember the last time I read someone with a style all his own, poetry that resembles nothing, except the writer. Bukowski was just that. Neruda introduced readers to wooden and steel sonnets, that's what made him one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. His earthly language can be compared to every other artform and still has the power to engulf readers.
  Edited on Apr 29, 7:46 because 'I can't spell'.
• on 40,000 by Charles Bukowski, on April 28, 2005

  actually, every one - absolutely everyone wants to write like him now a days. I've encounter quite a few poets in AP who mimic him. A few of them do a pretty decent job, but before I'm finished reading their work I know for certain that person is aiming for Buk's style.