A Paltry Explanation
Poetry is difficult
Words meaning other words meaning things no one could possibly even imagine
Yet everyone guesses at
Poetry is beautiful
It takes on forms like a shifter
Changing its skin to suit one
then another
It’s serpentine in beauty and has tigerish fluidity
It accomplishes everything
Asks for nothing
An art form
A free form
Everywhere and nowhere and all things at once
Yes
Poetry is difficult
Hard to pin down
Clumsy and shy
Brash and bold
It is a life of its own
And the poet is but a conductor of its majesty
Poetry is music and rhythm
Rhyme and reason
Hatred and love
Poetry is passion
Your passion
My passion
Our passion
It’s difficult to pin down
Grasp it –
It runs
And because of that it is perfect
It is
Poetry