Sunday, August 30, 2009

Poetry about Poetry

Ambling a's
Emotive e's
Moody m's
Pirouetting p's
Releve r's
Sliding s's
Traipsing t's

A choreography of letters and words
flitting before the eyes
expression of inner reflection
recorded observations of the five senses:
The page is the stage
a word, a movement
phrases, the dances
Poetry
is
choreography


An invitation for you:
audience, reader
to unravel pieces
strung together
in a whole,
a whole of beauty
unique
unique to you, the beholder.
Byron, Balanchine, Graham and Oliver;
Who stirs you on stage and page?

2 comments:

quin browne said...

sometimes we look at a phrase we've crafted, and think, "damn. that's good!"

i hope you thought that with this one:

Poetry
is
choreography

Dee Martin said...

"a choreography of words" - love that :)