A Buzzing Probe in Deep-throat Nectar
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem
“Early poetry finds its stories and then finds ways of remembering them.” ~ Michael
Schmidt, The First Poets, 8
“Helen Hunt Jackson once commissioned Emily Dickinson to write her a poem about an
oriole . . . Dickinson responded with ‘The Hummingbird’.” ~
https://somethingrhymed.com/2014/05/01/emily-dickinson-and-helen-hunt-jackson/
A poem flops about, uncertain where
To go. It’s like a fish that wants to walk
Or wants to grow six wings and fly. A pair
Won’t be enough. Verse doesn’t want to talk.
It wants to soar or dive to depths unknown
Until its bathysphere contraption came
To be. And then the poem hears a groan
Inside a story, something far from tame,
That needs to be immortalized. A god
Wants someone to create him in a crime
Of freedom. Poetry becomes the pod
For life support to nourish him in time.
..A poem needs to do much than just fulfill.
….It wants to be the hummingbird’s bright chill.
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