Glynn over at Faith, Fiction, Friends is sponsoring a wee little contest. As a closet poet, I thought I'd take a crack at giving answer to "Why poetry matters today."
Rooted in our shared human experience
In this created space, articulated into being
By holy Words,
Are the empty arms of childless Mothers,
Falling buildings, rising suns,
Hummingbirds and hammered nails,
Corpses lying under rubble,
Dreams realized
and dashed,
Sunsets and mine fields and eyelashes,
Despair, elation , hope, cowardice.
And when human emotions stretch within these fleshy skins
And surge past the walls that we, in our fragility, cobbled together to enclose them,
The animal which escapes its cage is Poetry.
4 comments:
Oooh! Amazing - you win in my book!
"Please pick Nancy,
Her poetry is fancy!"
With that kind of endorsement, how can I possibly lose :-)
Thanks, friend!
I loved this. So glad you put your hat in the ring. :)
Very nice!! I'm glad you're out of the 'closet' :-) Love your word choices. More, more!
Post a Comment