Although it’s not World Poetry Day, I thought this needed airing again.
Today, Friday, 21st March 2014 has officially been declared ‘World Poetry Day’.
So where does poetry ‘sit’ in your life and what is your idea of poetry?
Poetry is my way of ordering an idea or response, by moving it out of my head in as few words as possible, to clarify ~ writing the spine of what comes next.
It may stay as a poem, or become a short story, a script for a play or the screen or novel, perhaps even spawn more poems… but poetry is always the key.
Poetry is communicating clearly a strong emotion within me, which combined with the use of metaphor, I hope will find an echo when others read my efforts.
So I thought I’d share my reply to a fun poem Professor Glen Phillips sent and my responding poem (with permission, of course):
Glen Phillips reading a poem at Poets…
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