three reasons
to teach poetry
are
understand it
learn it
quantify it
as a changing
world
projects its evolutionary
expansion and retraction
reacting
not to the meter or the line break chapter
but to the thoughts
triggered that simultaneously
trigger thinking
not form for the formless
but the less
saying more and the more
discarded
even rendered
useless -
useless
like the teaching of it
based on textbook
toiletries
bkmackenzie
copyrighted 2011
amen.
ReplyDeletemove me. make me feel. make my head explode. blind me so i can see.
Perhaps poetry allows us to really see into one another's heart? Perhaps allows us to open our hearts for others to see?
ReplyDeleteTrue. But sometimes the "toiletries" need to be tested in order to know which to throw out...
ReplyDeleteI never thought of it that way, but some toiletries are sensory. A poem might spring forth from it. But textbook poetry? Hmmmm...on the surface, it sounds uninspired, but maybe there's a found poem hidden within it?
ReplyDeleteJust ask a child. He or she will know. :)
This is a beautiful, thought-provoking piece.