Sunday, January 20, 2013

Perspective

This is something I wrote several years ago. I'm reposting it for Poets United. I've always loved concrete poetry.





'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all    

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'




in memory

you stand

an abstraction

of sensuous delight

however

reverie out

of all proportion

with grim reality

does not withstand

a detailed scrutiny

i write to invent

not re-create

therefore

i must

state

you

are

a matter

of perspective


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10 comments:

  1. Wow... that... was... Amazing!!!!

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  2. You are a matter of perspective... FABULOUS LINE!!!!!
    Well done, Karen.
    http://www.kimnelsonwrites.com/2013/01/17/glow/

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  3. This is STUNNING - so brilliant. A matter of perspective, indeed. Fantastic write!

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  4. An excellent ending to this. I like that concept.

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  5. nice...really cool closure on this...and true as well on how things hold up to the light...or dont under scrutiny....it is all perspective....

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  6. "i write to invent

    not re-create" LOVE this Karen!

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  7. you are a matter of perspective. What an excellent thought, and so true of most things, when you come to think of it.

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  8. ha! cool close, cool piece all around!

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  9. The visual effect is amazing. It takes some physical efforts to do unless there is a template (which I doubt there is one) It's great Karen!

    Hank

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