What does poetry do for us? What sort of perspective does it bring to our everyday lives? I invite your answers to these open-ended questions. The image above captures visually what a poem does for me. While washing dishes Monday morning, I looked up and saw a wine glass holding the trees I'd gazed at over the soapsuds for years without really seeing. "Over everything I place a glass bell," Margaret Atwood concludes a poem about watching her sister skate. I like to think of a poem filling an open glass with the world. It contains the lyric moment, that instant when we experience something as ordinary and familiar as the trees in one's yard in a new way. An instant of perception captured in language. Brimful. Shimmering. Inviting us into its vessel of words.
Each day I will be posting a poem on my Laureate's Lasso blog. I hope you will join me there.
3 comments:
I love this photo! How fantastic to catch that on camera.
Good Morning.
i like this. Me too (a poem a day).
Hugsss.
What a beautiful photo! When poetry is the lens through which I view the world, it helps me focus on the divinity in each moment -- sort of like taking the time to peer through a microscope and revel in the wonder of it all. Looking forward to an April full of poetry!
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