Salad # 13 : Poetry Redefined

In the ‘80’s, I wrote volumes of prose and verse on what I thought poetry was ! I put one in “ Candid Camera “ (Salad #1); here’s another sample…..

Message in a Bottle (1985)

Emotions
brewed by events uncertain
fermented by time
distilled in the depths of the soul
bottled within the heart
cased in a recess of the mind
displayed in the midnight of the eyes
sold to a senseless consumer……

That is poetry.

Raison D’etre (1986)

The urge to express….
The urge to depress….
The urge to impress ?

 Poetry – the urge
              - the surge
              - the purge
              - the dirge