 Poetry: November 22, 2023 Issue [#12289] |
This week: It Is All About The Key Edited by: Fyn  
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The poet is a little bit magician. He turns words into feelings.~~Paul Eluard
Enveloped in the essence of twilight's hue,
Where dreams collide and realities seem askew.
Let me take you on a flight,
where words dance and emotions ignite.~~Jude Herrick
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. So medicine, law, business, engineering… these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love… these are what we stay alive for.~~Walt Whitman
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.~~ Robert Frost
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By describing the poet as a magician, Paul Eluard suggests that poets have a unique talent to take ordinary words and weave them into a tapestry of emotions. Those threads, common to us all, are what link us together and allow the reader to take but specks on a page and translate them into something special, unique to them in that moment. What we, as poets, attempt to do is magical.
We take mere words, rub them together creating friction, where, indeed, those words can ignite and let emotions out to play. Sometimes, it is only within poetry --or poetic words-- where we have the freedom and the permission to not only touch both our and the reader's souls but to pull it out of hiding and into the light.
We shine a flashlight at a mirror leaving no place to hide. We put those emotions on a slide and set the magnification of the microscope to max. In the kaleidoscope of a poem, we spin the parts and within the ensuing designs create something magical. And it is in that magic we each read something that only the reader can visualize.
Poetry pares the world down to distinct essences. It brings that bottom line into focus giving us the reason we live. I'll never forget Robin Williams quoting Walt Whitman in 'Dead Poets Society' where he has the class huddle up and says the words in the 3rd quote above. I'd heard them before but something about that moment made that truth crystal clear to me as a writer. There is a responsibility in writing and in our sharing the truths we have siphoned out of the daily muck of living. What we do IS important! That we have taken the time to do so IS important.
When a random thought stops us in our tracks and we think, There's a poem in that!, it is that essence that we expand and frame because we need to share that thought. Because it is too good NOT to share, because we need to. We must. Poetry distills the stew of our existence down to that special ingredient that makes it delicious. Poetry sifts out all the surrounding noise til what is left is the sheer music of the thought.
We find that key, the intrinsic essence and we make it fly.
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Mara ♣ McBain  says: LOVE IT!!!! ❤️ So true and well said! Thank you for the inspiration.❤️
Elfin Dragon-finally published  comments: I'm giving an "all hail" for Graham's idea about looking at how Epic Poems were created and how the themes, meters and rhymes were used. I know "The Illiad" and "The Oddysee". And you can, of course, put several layers of Shakespeare and his lot. Don't forget my favorite, Edgar Allen Poe. The Oldest I've read (mostly) "The Tale of Gilgamesh".
I'll work on this concept but not until the new year! :)
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