POETRY SHEET #2 May, 2009
© Carla Viniferi
INTRODUCTION BY EDITOR AND AUTHOR, CARLA VINIFERI
World is awash with words for better or for worse. I read everything that pops into my vision. I also write my share. Poetry Sheet is intended as an inexpensive, quick-to-read monthly publication for your reading pleasure born of my passion for words. Read it while you are downloading, on the mobile while the laundry is drying, and gentlemen, read it to your dates, they'll be impressed. Ponder, puzzle, and possess. And for godssakes, read it OUT LOUD!!
So why poetry? Because in our blessed digital age that gives us an easy access platforms like this one, our desires for intimate contacts are being met through virtual connection, virtual intimacy of e-mails and text messages with hardly any warmth or contents. What if we can bring back the passion and heat of raw emotions into the modern communication? Words release. Poetic words, ten ordinary words condensed into one, they release like sex. When you come across the right poem, right words, all the feelings and thoughts hitherto undefined, unreleased, unrealized yet burning their way through your psyche become unleashed. "Un-" becomes "-ING."
This month, it's all about yearning.
Lust can be a catalyst.
Naturally we rise like a cloud.
Study is not necessary but desired.
Life is enlightenment itself.
As spring gives way to summer, seagulls are nesting. They strut carrying a beakful of dry grass, "I'm building a comfy mansion, you want to see?"
Soon we'll see hatchlings waddling about their rocks on their wide yellow clown feet. Have you ever wondered what makes them actually try their wings? Don't be so quick with that. Muse for a minute. Is it the hunger that pushes? Wanting to follow their parents? Or is it the desire to fly? After all they are born to fly. We are not, yet we do. Some of us anyway! In planes and on gliders, we take to the sky. Many of us simply fly with our mind.