Artists Amongst Poets

The vessel of this journey we must love, you see, The way anchored on the shore, against the waves it stays The way it flows with the tide when we’re out deep The way it protects is when the weather gets rough The way it hangs on although it is often tough The way it shows us the beauty of the sunset The way it enforces the reign of the sea. This vessel, it so seems Is resilient, indestructible as we’ve seen. The way it’s made it through the darkest storm The way it’s let us play on a sunny day The way the masts stand tall with pride The way the sails make way This vessel, it so seems   Is replete, packed tight as we’ve seen The way the love fills the hull The way the pain floats away The way the wood creeks of wisdom The way the maps and the scrolls let us sail free Our vessel on this journey we must love   For it has let us just be

A hug A fleeting moment of reflection All involving A warm wave of affection. Partner His presence A shining light through dense clouds. Live Music The bright lights The deep bass Frequencies of technicolor Emotion, right in our face. Feeling The sun shining in my eyes Lashes  Glitter in the skies.

 The way Ezra Pound defines “images” goes as follows:  " The image is the poet's pigment.  The image is not an idea but a radiant node, a vortex through which, and from which and into which ideas are constantly rushing. It is as true for painting and sculpture as it is for poetry."

                For me personally, line breaks I would just make intuitively. They’re mostly related to my fragmented thought process. I write my poems as a big block on the page first. Then I cycle through the thoughts and decide their order, and when a thought ends and another begins, or an idea transforms or leads into another idea. Personally, prior to my first poetry class, I had, and still have very little sense of punctuation in poetry. In some poems, it seems there is no punctuation, while in others, there’s plenty of indicative punctuation. Thus I have gone between being led by my thought process, or whatever punctuation I put in the poem.             In “The Line” Edward Hirsh explains that line breaks should stem from a combination of meaning, rhythm, breathing, typography and, sound. The article recognizes that the question is multi-fac...