art
Poetry and art go hand in hand; in fact, a poem is just art in the written form.
Bad Teachers Don't Ruin Poetry, Bad Readers Do
I have often heard people say that they might have liked poetry but studying it in school put them off it; that a terrible English teacher made them read sonnets and was so dreadfully dull that they permanently associated the two in some sort of Pavlovian conditioning. Nonsense. One does not look at a painting and deny it's beauty because they had a poor art teacher. People still appreciate music even if their musical education was pathetic. No, it is indeed the inadequacy of the reader and not the failure of a teacher.
By Jake Street9 years ago in Poets
Love is...
I regret my inability to overcome the pain of all my disappointments. So I try to live without expectation and there by maintain a threadbare existence. To simply live and to simply give. To look beyond the story of suffering into the truth of love and all the joy that is contained in the overwhelming currents of intimate connection. The story of Shama is the story of myself. The story of the peaceful goddess who exploded into a myriad of pieces and somehow each piece found itself and grew itself a new whole until the old reflection was no longer broken. But complete and unified in its own power. For itself, by itself, this is the nature of my soul. And if you are its reflection than yours too. For I am as timeless as the history of cosmic motion. Universe without beginning and without end. I call upon your higher self to trust again. To suspend all beliefs and concepts and simply trust in the unfathomable depths of each living breath. For it is in the breath that true being emerges. All else is just the containment and therefore sacred only in so far as it reveals the core.
By Crystal Pearl9 years ago in Poets
