Poetry doesn’t exist to give you prose. It’s this other thing. It is something that has to do with the sound of words, the sound of letters, the spaces between words, letters, how words connect to the mind and to the throat at the same time.
Sound
By Elizabeth Oakley Weaver
Even as a kid I've said it doesn't matter if I live to be 150: this life will be the blink of an eye. Poet, author, visual artist, photographer, educator and lover of life (though still working on the hard parts like Covid, violence, inequity), I'm completing a memoir inspired by and largely about dogs and people.
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I love your phrases “spaces between words.” I love the pauses that poetry requires of us. Nice, don’t you think?
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I agree. Alice Motley describes poetry’s sensual essence perfectly. Thank you for your reflection.
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