I’ve read poems that are filled with tenderness. I’ve read poems that have an edge. But I can’t think of a collection I’ve read that have both tenderness and an edge.
That is, until I read Instructions for Use: Poems by Arlene Demaris. Not only does she write poems that are tender with understanding, she also drops any idea of rose-colored glasses and smacks you with often-shocking reality. And what you realize is that this is life, with the good and the bad mixing together into one lump of what it means to be human. Or as Demaris writes, we forget “how much of us is salt water, how much of us is music.”
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Thursday Readings
“Brancusi’s Golden Bird,” poem by Mina Loy – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Poet Laura: One Fine July Day – Donna Hilbert at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Lifetime Lease – poem by Seth Lewis.
“Song of Marion’s Men,” poem by Wiliam Cullen Byant – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.
“Omaha Beach” and “Common Sense” – poems by Bradford Skow at Society of Classical Poets.
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