Monday, September 24, 2018

What is poetry?

What is  a poem?
Just because somebody
writes a sonnet or a haiku
is that  poem
with redeeming thoughts?
In my mind the bard
has to part with some kind
of thought valued by whom?

What is a strophe?
A Greek delimiting stop
due to this - stanzas galore
is a poem
with challenging ideas?
In the receiver's mind
the wordsmith has spoken
and opened a unknown box.

What is a ode?
A Keatian urn of pictographs
marbled men jump out
in the verse
with contradictory notions?
In the interpreter's mind
she will enter Pandora's
panoramic view forever.

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