emerson said
poetry begins
when we live
from the center outward
an explosion
which begs the question
How old is poetry?
poetry is as old as
the first trillionth of a second
it is older than the rings of saturn
poetry was there
the moment william shakespeare
learned to write his name
it was the first ivory key
beethoven ever touched
with his chubby baby finger
poetry was present
when da vinci
married mona lisa off
to the renaissance man
it existed within the wooden paint brush
van gogh dipped into the color blue
it is being made dizzy by gillespie
one night in tunisia
poetry is the inch between true love’s kiss
it lives in the shadows creeping across
humphrey bogart’s face
poetry is a bird silently in flight
it is the light in your child’s eyes
poetry is accepting
life is like being at a great party
and nobody knows who threw it
3 replies on “the age of poetry”
Yes poetry is.
Loved these lines Alicia…poetry is there in all reaches of art ; and what is art ? it is the manifestation of sensuousness in humans…raj
And poetry is repeated, again and again, as the need to hear again what the heart has already spoken, arises. This is beautiful, Doll.