Thursday, October 8, 2020

Poetry Begins in the Blood

 

Image by Christine Sponchia from Pixabay

 All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

 

Poetry courses through my veins,

dances in my heart and pours

onto the page before me.

 

Always, it surprises me,

the way what is lived is translated

inside my body, almost page perfect

 

sometimes. If not for my minds

ability to receive this poetry,

it would pool, become stagnant

 

unless I moved it, moved my

body, mimed the dance

beating in my heart.

 

©2020 Joanne Young Elliott

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