And So You Write Poetry

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. - Allen Ginsberg. .......................... You can get lost sometimes in the mind's obsessions, its need for order, to gather in what spills out from the ruptured sides of certainty, the comfortable surrounds of routine - and so you write poetry. Then there are those moments when all descends into panic, when you lose control and the world spirals inward, winding itself up into an ever tightening catastrophe - and so you write poetry. And when something in this world or beyond wants to speak and finds in you an ear in which to whisper and you are gifted a tiny spark of the sublime - you write poetry. And even when the cogs and levers of your life click into place and run like clockwork, and yet leave a fear that the ticking sound you hear is the countdown to a final detonation - you write poetry.