Welcome: Ars Poetica

Ars poetica: The Art of Poetry
~ "a poem is an intimation rather than a full statement"
~ a poem should "be motionless in time"
~ it has no relation to generalities of truth, historical fact, or love-variations, perhaps, of truth, beauty, and goodness.
~ makes clear, captures a human experience, an experience of grief, or of love, or of loneliness, or of memory. Thus a poem becomes a way of knowing, of seeing, albeit through the senses, the emotions, and the imagination.
~ MacLeish often said that the function of a poem is to trap "Heaven and Earth in the cage of form."

Thanks to http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/macleish/ars.htm for the above definitions

~ writing for the sake of writing; free verse. Free expression. Powerful. Contrived. Naked. Passionate. Vulnerable. Fleeting moments of creative, expressive inspiration captured on a scrap of paper; a sheet of tissue; the back of a receipt, in a desperate attempt to capture and immortalize what comes and only stays in mere fractions of a second, never to return. Welcome to my written world.