Ars Poetica

Ars Poetica Poetry should woo you with the subtlety of a snake charmers flute sway you side to side, captive, held in its sensuous grasp. The words should lead you blindfolded through a myriad of meaning allowing you to feel each step, each syllable, each inflection. Rhymes glide frictionless against the grain of reason’s attempts to intervene, to interpret a heart. Every pause a calculated hint of passion’s smoldering depth, the Yin and Yang of its heartbeat. Cadence should slow the rapid reader, invite the trinity – mental, physical, spiritual - to dally in reunion. The start should lead you forward to quench an insatiable thirst, fueling the desire for more. The ending should return you to the beginning of your love, rekindle the waning flames of an appetite – semi-sated – yet still hungering. 6/1/2015 Note – It is the nature of the poet to provoke – not to explain. He may provoke anger, joy, laughter, tears, thoughtful reflection or horrific revulsion. The poet may never know what will resonate with the reader, what the poem will find in them, what word or phrase will haunt them, taunt them, console them, entice them to read another poem.