Poetry Is The Thing That Cannot Fail

Poetry is the piece of copy

paper you can only fold in half

seven times.  It will not release

to halve itself again and this I

take as a half proof -  that state

of proof as strange as clear glass

which dwells somewhere in

the physical world between truth

and outright lies- that it is surely

real. We know we shouldn’t be

able to see through this solid pane,

but do. Doubt less, sing and dance

more, but poetry alone is the thing

that cannot fail.

FG 29 Sept 2013

All rights reserved by the author Forrest Greenwood.

Typhoon Wutip has set upon Thailand, but it is drop-dead beautiful here.  I’m feeling stronger everyday.