Jude Herrick Poet Ode

Poetry Is 4

      Poetry is, a Martial Art.
  To give, receive angled view,
  looks and feels, old and new.
  Moves softly, with lethality.
 Delivers strikes out of chaos ballet.
     Focusing, on vulnerabilities.

The battle ensues, in the yin and yang, ebb and flow.
 Each 'rain, drops the bow, in lieu tenanting the blow by blow. Beauty and pain.

"I call this one the "look at me now b itches, I am a butterfly now, technique."

~Caterpillar

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Ink Empress January 8, 2024 at 11:39 PM “ im a butterfly now technique” what a creative way to describe poetry and what you think of poetry, martial art, thats a very unique and different way of defining poetry, one which we wont read everday. I love that! Opening line! Truly is captivating and drew me right in. Yin and yang and ebb and flow, the light and dark and highs and lows, all woven artistically, Thats poetry yes! Pleasure reading your work! Jude Herrick January 9, 2024 at 4:15 AM Thank you, Ink Empress. I think reading all of you wonderful poet's works is indeed being relocated in a chrysalis of point of view. A magical metamorphosis to feel others emotions, with understanding, healing and solidarity. Therapeutic for the Author as well. Transforming.

Silent One January 8, 2024 at 11:54 AM Poetry is a martial art.. nice one.. you must be a master of its form then.. be it karate or ninjitsu... great last line, that is very clever... however realistically a butterfly would not be a good kickboxer lol.. Jude Herrick January 8, 2024 at 10:00 PM Float like a Butterfly and sting like a tazer. Haha Jude Herrick January 8, 2024 at 9:36 PM however realistically a butterfly would not be a good kickboxer lol.. :-) But what a clever distraction, perhaps for a pick-pocket monkey sidekick in the mall, with a tazer.

Karen Jones January 8, 2024 at 12:55 AM Great poem on poetry with excellent execution of word choices! Jude Herrick January 8, 2024 at 6:13 AM Thank you, Karen. God has a trick up his sleeve, a pleasant surprise for each. The Butterfly a chosen hint, by the Poet of All. (I wonder what He has in store for us. Whatever it is, it is beyong our current understanding...THAT GOOD ! :-)