Thursday, July 21, 2011

textbook toiletries





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


4 comments:

  1. amen.

    move me. make me feel. make my head explode. blind me so i can see.

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  2. Perhaps poetry allows us to really see into one another's heart? Perhaps allows us to open our hearts for others to see?

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  3. True. But sometimes the "toiletries" need to be tested in order to know which to throw out...

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  4. I 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?

    Just ask a child. He or she will know. :)

    This is a beautiful, thought-provoking piece.

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