*Instructions For Growing Poetry- Tony Mitton
Shut your eyes.
Open your mind.
Look inside.
What do you find?
Something funny?
Something sad?
Something beautiful, mysterious, mad?
Open your ears.
Listen well.
A word or a phrasebegins to swell?
Catch its rhythm.
Hold its sound.
Gently, slowly roll it around.
Does it please you?
Does it tease you?
Does it ask to grow and spread?
Now those little words are sprouting poetry inside your head.
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Not for analysis, but just for fun....
I like learning poems because it has lots of meaning in even one sentence...
Even one basic word can be VERY powerful.
I think poetry is slowly becoming my friend...!
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