A WINK OF THE MIND’S EYE:: Poetic Perusals

Language acts as a garment people wear to express thought. Poetry is the style of the clothing, not the cloth itself. Rather than a dress code, consider this book a catalog of colorful poetic expression.One purpose of poetry is to defeat language: an attempt to express the prelinguistic reality around us. Ironically, if a poet ever succeeds in defeating language he would be a composer of music instead.The poems herein have at least this goal: to get as close to that state of existence before it turns into language. These poems assume that all living things, and the inorganic, can and do share this prelinguistic state (of mind). Broadly defined topics deal with areas understood by people: relationships, music, existence and the philosophical. When you read these poems you will easily see their form in no way is pedantic, obscure or a drag to read. Rather they are light, rhythmic, even at times silly. Can there be language without time? Can poetry remove the time from life? Or, are poets simply having the time of their life? Only time will tell, for these timeless questions. Hence by sampling the poems in this book you leave the weighty behind to enjoy a lighter look which amuses as well as enlightens.