Consider everyday activities and objects, like a flight of doves, mowing the grass, pressing a flower or four-leaf clover in a book, salvia in the flower garden, or snow. We see them, we experience them, we sometimes wonder at their beauty or even meaning. (As a kid, I often wondered at the meaning of mowing the grass every week, and I decided it was something put on this earth to aggravate children.)
Poet Claude Wilkinson looks at these things, and he sees what we see, but he sees more. He notes the visible and what can be seen, but he also notes what is invisible and what isn’t readily seen. And in the unseen, he finds beauty, purpose, and meaning, and he realizes that often the unseen is more important, and more vital, than what can be readily seen.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Tuesday Readings
Two Sonnets – James Sales at Society of Classical Poets.
Attention Span – poem by Jerry Barrett at Gerald the Writer.
Poetry Prompt: Heart and Soul – Tweetspeak Poetry.
At the Fishhouses – poem by Elizabeth Bishop at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin).
Uncredited: poem by Boris Dralyuk – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.
A Housewife, Walking – poem by Kate Gaston at Rabbit Room Poetry.
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