When spirit spills with pensive thoughts
keyboard transforms to pen,
while laptop serves as diary
where words to poems bend.
Muse infuses rumination,
guides thoughts to metaphor and rhyme.
Melds verbal sounds, attunes each word
till each word suits design in time.
A poet paints tableaus with words,
and sculpts each phrase to polished form,
weaves structure's warp with sense's weft,
then poetry is born.
Joyce Josephson
Author notes
My husband's a mathematician by schooling, a system's engineer by trade. He works with numbers, I with words. We both solve puzzles. So much of what makes good poetry is craft, the willingness to edit and "sculpt" the rough piece to perfect it as much as possible. In that way, a poet is like a plumber - we have to work to make it "flow".
The only difference is, they make money. I don't.
A contest entry
- What Makes A Poet? by pen-inhand.
1900 points, ended August 15, 2007, 21 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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I like the keyboards to pens, that first verse is so what we are.I am trying to bend the words right now. good read and thank you,,doubly
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A lovely piece with great flow. Thanks for entering our contest and the best of luck! Kelly & Bob
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this is great Joyce i loved it xxx cheeky xxx
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you painted a portrait of elegant tapestries of emotion here
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Thank you!
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