If There Were No Poetry

Exchange Is Creation.

A World Is To Be Fought For, Sung, And Built: Love Must Imagine The World.

The 'idea' For The Poem, Which May Come As An Image Thrown Against Memory, As A Sound Of Words That Sets Off A Traveling Of Sound And Meaning, As A Curve Of Emotion (a Form) Plotted By Certain Crises Of Events Or Image Or Sound, Or As A Title Which Evokes A Sense Of Inner Relations; This Is The First 'surfacing' Of The Poem. Then A Period Of Stillness May Follow.

Breathe-in Experience, Breathe-out Poetry.

I Will Try To Be Non-violent One More Day This Morning, Waking The World Away In The Violent Day.