Poetential
Dull sublunary lovers need
the help of 3D glasses
to ever seen things differently,
or grasp just what romance is.
We poets see things differently
because we take more chances.
The seen and unseen, we embrace
without cardboard enhancers.
Could Love even express itself
without our helpful similes?
Honor or Courage, without our help,
would be just pale facsimiles .
We are the guardians of the words
that hollow men would empty.
Poetential is our flaming sword
against their verbal entropy
A Neologism for a title and a borrowed phrase from the great John Donne to start me off. Reading a poem by Ann Rouse inspired the new word a marriage of poet with potential. It is common to use a new word in asentence- I thought i would use it in a poem.
Words have long been my passion and what an honor to read a new word which fit so well in your poem. The imagery is wonderful in this piece, John.
Me likes right well. La, what a dandy tribute to the honor and privilege of being poets, not to mention the enjoyment and pleasures of seeing beyond. Excellent new word and imagery. Beautiful.
Oh, I love the simplicity of this verse telling the workings of the poet's heart. Dorothy A Poet Who Loves to Sing
Thanks to all. Credit goes also to Ann Rouse, a poet friend at another site whose typing is as bad as mine. She first generated the word.