On Poetry

Poetry is a challenging art; it requires skill and meter and a poet that’s awful smart, or he will tire and teeter. Poetry requires wit and heart; one must be a practiced poet who writes with grace and art to forge beauty and not blow it. Poetry is a divine art which comes from the Nine Muses who both inspire and impart afflatus that the poet ne'er refuses. Poetry can be an arduous art, a source of perspiration that demands the better part and labors for inspiration. Poetry is a demanding art that's not for the casual dilettante nor for the weak and faint of heart, the cavalier or nonchalant! Poetry is a noble art; more lovely than science or math, it requires the mind of Descartes and the love for Parnassus’s path. Poetry, at last, comes from the heart and sometimes makes no sense; but it keeps us from being apart, and that makes all the difference.