I Like

I like poetry that is simple and direct and yet is layered in depth where you can descend as deep as you want to go - poetry that says just enough and no more and leaves things unsaid, fertile ground on which the imagination can grow. I like poetry that finds its roots in nature and ordinary things, listens to what memory murmurs and the rumblings that rise from the soul. I like the incantatory power of poetry, how it evokes feeling and stirs a longing in places left hollow a lifetime ago - poetry that becomes almost prayer not to some named god, but to that which remains hidden and out of reach but which whispers to us in rustling leaves, reflected light and along the corridors of our dreams. I like poetry that claims no more than being a loving imprint of a life left briefly on the tidal wash of time.