MESMERISING.................

I have often wondered about the innovative ... inspiring strength that words possess. It has always made me think about the reverberations that sublime thoughts can create! One drop of ink can incite thoughtfulness in thousands of people.... and when words are in form of verse then the effect gets all the more heightened ! Isn't it? Well, wandering through the wonderful world of poetries and imaginations, I came across this soft verse on poetry itself... I thought it should be saved here !Afterall, spontaneous expression is all about momentous impulses that guides us with the eye for beauty around....


Ars Poetica by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH


"A poem should be palpable and mute
As a globed fruit,

Dumb
As old medallionsto the thumb,

Silent as the sleeve-worn stone
Of casement ledges where the moss has grown -

A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.
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A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs,

Leaving, as the moon releases
Twig by twig the night-entangled trees,

Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves,
Memory by memory the mind -

A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs.
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A poem should be equal to:
Not true.

For all the history of grief
A n empty doorway and a maple leaf

For love
The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea -

A poem should not mean
But be."