Spotlight on Tim Jeffers

Free form is Freedom

Here we go again, I see. Still writing perfect little
nursery rhymes. A rhyme at the end of every line.
Still following all the rules. Don't you see that
everything they ever taught us about poetry, all the
rules, all the rhymes was to limit us. To mask every
glimpse of pure emotion into nothing but a fable or
fairy tale. It is time to cut ourselves open. Grab a
handful of the intestines and rip them out. Throw them
naked on the floor. Sift through the smut and find the
darkest most repulsive cinder and put it on a trophy
stand. Gleaming. Shimmering. A black gem. Beautiful.
Shameless. Are you afraid? Naturally, self disection
is learned before it is perfected. Honest. Brutally
amputated feelings. Bleed because you understand it is
necessary. And finally you stitch yourself back
together again. Wearing your scars proudly to the
world. Everybody has them yet most hide them. Not I,
they are a part of me and I want you to see them. Only
then, will we truly understand each other.

 

Tim Jeffers (aka Chameleon): I have always been an avid writer, but was writing with the intention of sorting out my own thoughts, nothing more. I didn't consider myself a poet until I began to read more contemporary poetry that was similar to what I was already doing. Now, back home in Chico, CA, as 23 years of age, I am writing 2-3 hours a day. I consider myself a "humanist", in that I beleive that all emotions, whether painful or beautiful, are equally important. Because of that, I tend to write very blatently in an attempt to honestly portray my true feelings at the time of "conception".

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