John Lawless Poet Free verse

Tell Tale Titles

TELL TALE TITLES

Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”
could have been entitled
“Lost in the Woods”
Thoreau’s
“On Your Own in the Wilderness”
never seen as a treatise on
transcendentalism
and without Joseph Heller
we would have no “Catch-22”. 
The title should
in some respect
cause you to reflect
on the less obvious
more substantial nuances
of the body,
the heart and soul,
the essence
of the experience.
Horton may have heard a “Who”,
but children hear an invitation
into an awakening imagination,
a distant place
of magic and mystery
hidden
in plain sight.


John G. Lawless
©4/28/2021

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Daniel Turner May 2, 2021 at 5:50 AM Yes John. I believe titles are extremely important. A good title is what pulls the reader in and a unique title is easily remembered. Have a wonderful day in Beantown:)