Practical Poetics
One thing is sure;
a poet's competence is best expressed
by letting someone else inside his head.
Once there, the realms of heaven and hell
are opened up to shape
the reader's dread,
or fancy,
or delight, but best of all
to shake him, shock him,
runble, quake, until he sees
another world of fantasy
that echos down another hall
of truth.
It is the choosing, then,
that sets the type,
and reading as he writes, he plucks
the flowers of wisdom or despair
that struggle into light,
and there he liberates each one
to share with us its glory
or its blight.
And if he must, or even if he might,
his mission is our trust,
and we may cower or may delight
when any poet's inner wars
become our own as they
reciprocate and tunnel in.
Then sometimes fiery chariots appear
within the universal mind.
~
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