—Public Domain Photo Courtesy of
Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CA
THE MEANING OF POETRY
—Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CA
Poetry is religion.
Poetry is Spirituality.
Poetry is compassion.
Otherwise, why would we bother
To listen to each other,
At all?
Poetry is about drawing
The ethereal
Into the mundane,
The universal
Into the individual,
Mercy into our chains,
And the other way around.
About seeing the entire world
In a grain of sand,
Preaching the shamanic
To unruly bands,
Holding all our troubles
In our outstretched hands,
Saying, “Here, can you hold it?
Feel it, mold it, eat a little piece
And pass it on?”
There’s enough for everyone,
If everyone contributes what they can,
At our world-wide potluck of the soul.
___________________
—Medusa, with thanks to Joseph Nolan!
—Joseph Nolan, Stockton, CA
Poetry is religion.
Poetry is Spirituality.
Poetry is compassion.
Otherwise, why would we bother
To listen to each other,
At all?
Poetry is about drawing
The ethereal
Into the mundane,
The universal
Into the individual,
Mercy into our chains,
And the other way around.
About seeing the entire world
In a grain of sand,
Preaching the shamanic
To unruly bands,
Holding all our troubles
In our outstretched hands,
Saying, “Here, can you hold it?
Feel it, mold it, eat a little piece
And pass it on?”
There’s enough for everyone,
If everyone contributes what they can,
At our world-wide potluck of the soul.
___________________
—Medusa, with thanks to Joseph Nolan!
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