What draws a poet
to look both at and beyond
the ordinary?
~
Longing deep enough
to strip away the surface;
endless search for hidden truth.
What draws a poet
to look both at and beyond
the ordinary?
~
Longing deep enough
to strip away the surface;
endless search for hidden truth.
Like Henri Michaux,
poets should write what they know,
so what will be your subject?
~
Sassy sons who plague
their mothers with questions such
as this is what I know best.
Could it be, that we
write ’cause we can’t draw a tree
and ’cause we can’t hit high C?
~
Why we write remains
a mystery. For some it’s
a simple necessity.
Writing may help fill
our spiritual void;
what else might it accomplish?
~
Writing can also
empty our ego as we
struggle to give the void form.