People sometimes tell me
they have trouble understanding poetry.
That's because they consume it
as they would a banana,
starting at one end and chomping
down to the other.
Poetry has to be consumed like
corn on the cob.
One should start at one end
and work down to the other,
but then one has to
go back to the beginning --
change one's angle of perspective --
and - again - go from one end to the other.
I can't
emphasize
this point about changing
one's angle of perspective
enough.
There is a difference:
with corn on the cob, one rotates the corn,
but, with poetry, one has to rotate something
within the reader.
Otherwise, one is just chomping into
an empty rut -
a track devoid of sustenance.
Then, one has to repeat the process
until every last morsel has been consumed.
That's how one ingests poetry.
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Wow. That looks like a simple yet perfect explanation but is too deep in meaning.
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lovely poem and perspective! 👏
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