Thursday, 29 January 2009

• Poetry?

  Let the chorus be discordant and the caterwaul a choir,

  And instead of conversations, send your thoughts over the wire.

   

  Flip a switch, turn on the darkness, break a lamp to bring the light,

  Be a living contradiction, while the dead live out of spite.

   

  Let silence convey meaning, and leave wind to shoot the breeze,

  Partake of fine emotions, and forsake the wine and cheese.

   

  Watch the rock erode the ocean and the tide pull at the moon,

  And when it crashes on the mountains, let the nighttime flowers bloom.

   

  Let us row against the desert, crawl on rough bellies to fly,

  And lie flat upon your stomach to look up into the sky.

   

  Watch the rocket ships dance circles in the depths of all the seas,

  While six lines constitute a poem that you never need to read.

   

  Six lines constitute a poem that you never need to read…

   

  -         Cecilia Sanders, 1/15/09

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