poetry hears you

[revolutionR]

the difference is, I don't think about
what I am thinking, until after I think it
if that sounds backwards, it is, in a sense
when it comes to writing poetry

the words can come to you out of the aether
it has something to do with memory, but whose?
your local memory is a series of images, just so
like nonlocal memories, as if there is only
your personal history, of figment and fragments

it seems so real, and it is real, but can you define reality
everything you have ever experienced can be like a blink
look over there and you see things that happened to you
look away for a moment and then look back, what now

poetry exists on a plane where memories mix with others
it crosses over into other planes of existence, other reality
who is to say what is possible, and not possible, probable
if you write about your own personal pain or pleasure
does the reader feel what you are going through
because they can identify with the universal language

so then all pain and all pleasure is shared as it is human
but what is it about poetry that takes it to another level
what is it about the roll of the dice, the writing on the wall
the uttered nonsense of the crazy person on the street corner
the mindless chatter of incessant talking heads in the media

what makes it different from that cry in the night, that cry
of loneliness, and anguish, that vision struck mind on the verge

[dadio]

Deep capture of the essence of poetry.

[Tjflowers80]

So very true dadio and once again the whole of it comes together through the eyes of the poet.