The Poets Game

What is the poet’s game? To point out what lies beyond and simultaneously within the mundane. To point out what we all know but perhaps have forgot. To point out that from the right angle everything is an illusion, but that obviously there must be some essence that is not, something ineffable, indescribable, maybe even unknowable, because otherwise the illusion would be unrecognizable just as if everything were light - without there being the contrast of dark it wouldn’t be light. To point out the value of what we so easily take for granted, the value of the small, the silent, the transitory, within the vast roar of eternity. The poet’s game may all be in vain, but nonetheless is the game we all play from our very first breath in our hearts, in our dreams because there we know Life – the universe itself – effortlessly yields to the spirit of play. (7/24/23)