Obsessed With Words

Obsessed with Words A poet is a wordsmith shaping lines like a blacksmith bending metal pieces into works of art and functional tools. Poets are blatantly obsessed with words That are selected, rendered, assembled into verse, like a composer strings notes or an artist who combines daubs and strokes to craft paint on canvas into a work of art. But words are unlike paint or music notes. Words have meaning, color, texture and feel. Words are living, vital creatures each with their own life, heritage and identity. The poet's bag of words squirms and resonates. The magical creatures are full of meaning Inspiring thoughts, emotions and feelings, even when single and alone in the poet's bucket of words. The poet's craft is to combine words into phases and stanzas convey thoughts and feelings to evoke responses within readers, triggered by words as single creatures, arrayed in lines, and combined into meaningful expressions and phrases made profound and emotional, by words in combination. A poet is a wordsmith, crafting and peddling words and lines - jangling meaning and responses from words - true, deep and humble, for words are unaware of their power and magic to inspire. Words are the true love of a poet's life.