A poem is
a new-born child,
delicate and lovely,
or a runaway horse
snorting smoke and fire,
its hooves trampling
on virgin ground.
It can (and should)
celebrate life and love,
or shake the soul's bedrock
with truths we may not
wish to hear,
but which we must.
A poem's music
can be the strum
of rain on a tin roof;
the silver bell
of angels' laughter,
or the symphonic roar
of the ocean's orchestra.
It can be a wail
of grief from a bluesman;
the foot-jiggling rhythm
of an Irish reel,
or the transcendent
notes of a Pavarotti.
Most of all, a poem
is free of all restraint,
a pure expression mined
from the depths of art
and human passion.
It is the love-child
of fertile imagination -
it is beyond definition.
A contest entry
- poems are fingers by just mercedes.
800 points, ended November 18, 16 entries
Bronze trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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I visualized all of your images as I read the poem, and I've had a wonderful trip. We had a sharp earthquake this morning at around 7 am, and your first two stanzas made it live again for me. The next two, the music of poetry, are beautiful.
The final stanza is enigmatic for me - beyond definition, yet somehow pure, and closely dependent on love.
Thank you for this great entry into the contest. -
"A poem's music
can be the strum
of rain on a tin roof..."lovely lines, who isn't stired bythe gentle music of rain?
And yes good poetry "is beyond definition."
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Very nice!! Best of luck in the contest!
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Well done, my friend.
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Fantastic, Bill, and so very true. Loved the different images, my friend,
well done and good luck to you,
kind regards,
Alex.
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Thus .is a great poem of what poetry can be. Thatas why i like poetry.There are no rules.....
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A beautiful way of summing up exactly what poetry is and the last stanza is just ... pure poetry!!!!
All the best in the contest.
Sue
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You have said it well. You can no more put boundaries on it than you can on the edges of our spirit and imagination.
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