“Genuine poetry can communicate before it
is understood. “
“Poetry
is the primal literary art form, the oldest and arguably the most supple.”
Willard Spiegelman
My father once told me he didn’t like poetry. It was too
complicated, he said. He could never figure out what it meant. I get angry at
those literature teachers who shut down the young minds who show up in their
classes, like the “mathematical poetry text book” I remember so clearly from The
Dead Poet’s Society that showed the students how to graphically declare the
quality of a poem.
Naturally this made me quite sad. This was my Dad’s
declaration and I, his younger daughter, am a poet!
I wanted to be sure he could read and understand my poetry
or rather anyone’s poetry.
Who is the person in your life who you want to understand
your poetry or your passion for poetry?
What would you write about to interest him or her?
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