Everyone knows that poetry is a powerful thing. It is an art form. It is individual. It is colorful. Poets have a way to combine words, rhyme, and meter into something beautiful. Some use poetry to express unspeakable emotion. Others write poetry to tell a story. It is a love song. It is an obituary. It is art. National Poetry Day
I think that one of the things that I enjoy about poetry is its simple profound-ness! The way that authors combine words makes an ordinary thing seem unusual and mysterious. I enjoy the way that poetry appeals to our emotions.
I have never been very good at writing poetry (as I said it is an art form that I have not delved much into!), but I do enjoy reading it sometimes. I found a couple of very appropriate quotes about poems...
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness." Robert Frost
"A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances." Douglas Dunn
"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense." Thomas Harrison
"A poem is never finished, only abandoned." Paul Valery
Here is a fun verse from Emily Dickenson, called "A Day".
"I'll tell you how the sun rose,
A ribbon at a time.
The steeples swam in amethyst,
The news like squirrels ran.
The hills untied their bonnets,
The bobolinks begun.
Then I said softly to myself,
"That must have been the sun!"
So today, we celebrate the written verse. Maybe take a few moments today to write a poem, or at least read some poetry.
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