Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Knowing

Knowing

You are not a choreographer but you make eyes dance across pages; draw beautiful pictures with your words. They sing to their readers and perform amazing verbal plays. You don’t fold papers but you bend phrases into magical birds of flight. Your whisper is soft assonance, your cry, crafted consonance. You twist steel metaphors into wild animals and weave words like a Panama hat maker. You don’t cook but you tantalize the pallets of those starving for creativity and culture. You remove dead literary appendages with buzz saw tenacity and sew disparate pieces into a fine tapestry. You don’t carve ice; you chip away bits of frozen heart and color the leaves of fall with artisan adjectives. You are languid and lithe in a gown of Longfellow with Langston Hu(gh)es. You do not make wine or brew beer but we drink in your elixir of verse and become intoxicated on the bouquet and effervescence. You create images that stick and emotions that dissolve sweet and savory on the tongue. You are a poet!

SMG

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

rich use of vocabulary here.

rel said...

Wow,
Creative and intoxicating description of the writer's craft. Like a good novel I felt compelled to continue onto each line.

Anonymous said...

well defined poet.

Alissa Meredith Jill Osborn Schapiro said...

deep.

Anonymous said...

a mindful write.

Lord Emmanuel said...

Good work.

Anonymous said...

self expression does help us grow.

Unknown said...

writing a good poem is equivalent to do a statue,

writing a superb poem is similar to
paint with upper skill talent and win Nobel prize.

Unknown said...

writing a good poem is equivalent to do a statue,

writing a superb poem is similar to
paint with upper skill talent and win Nobel prize.

Unknown said...

a way to see poetry and art,
which leads us to think deeply,

Abbey Michael Boyle Blount Fallin said...

life is full of tests.

Lotie Bollag Mosher Kloppenburg Romney said...

a piece with such extended research.
well done.

Malia Craig Tagg Lawrence Page said...

nice.

Anonymous said...

nice definition and thoughts toward poets.

GRÅSKY said...

What a wonderful owest to artists!

Alex Dissing said...

Exquisite.

Iremonger Lindsay JacoBus Quinlan Pickens said...

nice essay.