Poetry
Poetry enables us
to view life
through the aperture
of metaphor
With poetry
we sip from
golden goblets
of wine distilled
from Life’s experiences
Life is
intensified
clarified
celebrated
through poetry.
Wilma Gundy
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I liked your poem on poetry. Poetry has certainly enriched my life. I have always loved the poetic language of the original king James Bible, and I still favor it over modern translations. Who can better capture the true nature of abstracts like justice, lOve, transformation, etc., better than that master wordsmith William Shakespeare in the sonnets and iambic pentameter poetry written into his drama scripts, amplifying the meaning of each word, each metaphor, as it resonated both with the persona of the actor and with each individual in his audience. Portia’s “the quality of mercy” speech about mercy or Ariel’s speech from The Tempest about transformation—“Those are pearls that were his eyes__________nothing of him is lost ————but changed to…