The Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, when asked what compelled him to read and write poetry, said "because I had fallen in love with words." I too have had that same love affair with words throughout my life as a teacher, a poet, and as a reader. It is my hope that this blog be a continuing conversation about poetry and writing.
An Ongoing Conversation on Poetry
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Masterwords
Masterwords
Christopher Bogart
Poetry paints
with broad brush strokes,
cover canvas with concept.
Fine lines delineate rhymes,
divide thought,
delineate nuance
left in shadow.
The palette of sounds
abound around hues,
find clues to feeling,
motive,
message
best left
to the reader of verbs.
Our words,
like humming birds,
flitter from flower to flower,
captured on canvas,
hour by hour -
little seen,
and rarely heard.
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