You've heard it.
You're in the middle of your day, in the middle of your life: working, shopping, making dinner for your kids or browsing in a bookstore or dodging your way down the street and you hear it. A phrase drifts by in language that is so spontaneous and plain and effortless and so full of meaning and beauty that you say. "Now that's poetry."
It’s all around us and sometimes we notice it. And when I notice it, I like to savor it and remember it. And it usually sets me again on the path toward a familiar and fascinating question: what is poetry? Is there a line between the powerful, beautifully crafted work of renowned poets and the simple poetry that is spoken by the rest of us every day? And if so, where is that line? Is accidental poetry really poetry, or just a nice turn of phrase?
Tell me what you think and I will do the same. Let’s have a conversation about the beauty and power of everyday language.
To me sarcasm is pure poetry!
ReplyDelete"You are a poet!"
ReplyDeleteWhen my idea is too good to be practicable, they say
"You are a poet!"
Then I try to refine the idea and when it turns too practicable to be good, I hear:
"Now you're talking!"
Every day's poetry vanishes fast.
But after all, isn't all poetry "accidental"?
Regards
Carlos
(an accidental visitor from Portugal)
Post: Accidental Poetry
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"Seedless Watermelon"
What a disgrace now they
have taken the fun out
of a hot summer day
sitting on the back porch
and spitting the niggers
half-way across the yard
just to watch the robins
fly off the birdbath
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