Meet Poetry

she is not bound by the chains of prose

she grasps ideas and traps them in the poet's hands like butterflies

then releases them into the atomosphere of thought

to be absorbed by hungry minds

she speaks of

life

love

God

freedom

bondage

darkness

light

she is not stiff necked

nor limited by society's ideas of primp and proper

she is like clay in the potter's hands

subject to stretching and rubbing and editing

and starting over

she holds a microphone to the heart and allows it to speak

gives ground for the heart's yearns and the souls pleas

articulates the untold stories

those things sweet to the ears

and piercing to the heart

She is strong

she takes the blows of the angry poet

and the tears of the sorrowful one

she presses thoughts between blue lines

Her power lies in the pen or the mouth

she exists as a megaphone

magnifying the meditations of the purposeful poet

so he can be heard

she paints vivid images of blue skys and heavy rains on a blank canvas

she is a gift meant to be shared

she is free