Thinking in Words

When does this poem

become a poem?

Is it when these words

explode in your mind,

sending dust flying in all directions,

creating gods and myths,

and engraving space

with sound, movement and colour;

when sound is

the music of the spheres,

movement is

careering through time,

and colour is feeling alive

with less than a second

in expanding eternity

for thinking in words?

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Reviews

[Beccy]

Equally as well to ruminate on when does a poet become a poet. Not very many today, put pen to paper; (excluding the let it all out inner angst brigade,) which I take little heed of.

Perhaps, as your line 'for thinking in words,' submits, we are all poets in our minds.

Beccy.

[Gerald Parker]

Just spotted this. How come it didn't show in my emails. Thanks for commenting, Beccy. Too muchpasses for poetry now that the Internetallows everyone to have a scribble. I'm probably just as guilty. How do we tell if something that looks like a poem really is a poem?

[Phill Oz O'fee]

Interesting enquiry – However, as your words poetically probe the reader – is not the answer; from the beginning of your write, with stanzas falling down upon the page, a 'poem' emerges at the last ‘?’ ... yes...:-)

[Gerald Parker]

The problem as I see it is that many so-called poems consist of chopped up prose and are not really poems. So, this poem is about asking the reader to decide whether it becomes a real poem and or remains something masquerading as a poem, chopped-up prose in other words. The second problem is to answer the question - when does it become a poem? Does it have to "work" to be a real poem? If it "works" when does it work? Thank you for having a look at it.

[LE Berry]

A very nice poem of the thought process itself...

[Gerald Parker]

Thank you for commenting.