Poetry Defined

 

It doesn't mean anything anymore.
Kind of like love, or art, even science.
Philosophy itself is understood as mere
            smart-ass biz.

This is urgent. This is my career.
First, we've the need to meditate.
On an object, say a rose, or a haircut.
On an event, a place, a chronology
            of events,
a person, famous or nameless, on
            another poem,
a painting, a god, a sinner, a demon,
a passion, a girl, a mystery, even
            goddam ennui
or disease. Or meditation itself.

In this case you meditate with words.
And usually with a singing soul that
results in sort of like rhythms, and
rhymings, not necessarily at line ends,
it is to this moon that poetry bends.

So there you have it. Take it away,
            I'm done.
The rhetoric happens by way of the
            concentration.

 

 

 

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