Wednesday, April 15, 2015

No Matter What A Poet Writes. Comments

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What makes a poet want to write?
Poems we hope will hold on tight,
Made out of flowers that may bloom,
Somewhere in someone's hidden room,
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Sandra Feldman
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Daniel Brick 16 April 2015

How sweet and affirming that poems can reach someone's hidden room. I sense a person who is alienated, cut off and afraid to re-make contact with the world. And then a little piece of that scary world enters her closed-off space, she reads the poem for what it is - an invitation to return. Upon returning to the world, she can join the chase for moonlight - a purely gratuitous expression of joy. The last two lines about poetry helping to heal the open wounds - if only more people would summon us poets - we will readily help, right?

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