Sunday, June 6, 2010

WE ARE ALL POETS


If you can relate a little bit to the color of dirt at sunset
Or the taste of air under the dampened moon
If you can fall into a body of water and shed a tear -
For the endless work of waves 
Or the tireless pursuit of wind

Then you are a poet. 

If you pause when sun slips behind a winter cloud 
Or laugh at the rope, you swore was a snake
If your heart leaps and your stomach falls for any reason whatsoever

Or no reason

Then you are a poet. 

If you have ever wondered how your skin came to be your skin

Or your brain - your mind, your eyes - your sight,
your wounds - your gift

Then you are a poet. 

Better yet, 

YOU - ARE A POEM. 


(Photos by Raksha Boiteau)

11 comments:

  1. I love the playfulness of this site! You are doing beautiful work. And you are beautiful!

    Monica

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  2. We are all poets, but .... some more than others it seems.

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  3. Fabulous post. Indeed, we are all poets. No buts about it!!!

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  4. "The endless work of waves"...beautiful. Thank you!

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  5. And How beautiful you become by taking us to what's beautiful in us.
    i just love every hum in here,

    The sunrises in the whispers of your words awakens a silence in which the world is intensely alive!

    Thanks Aka...Good Lord, What a Goddess You are!

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  6. mmmmmmm, so beautiful.... :)

    poetic RASA from the Goddess of Poetry,
    AkkabEEE

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  7. What an unusual and beautiful site.

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  8. thank you. i have always wanted to be a poet.

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  9. Ah, beautiful. I love this. Some of us are haiku's, and some of us are sonnets, and some of us are canto's. But we are all poems AND the poets of ourselves. :)

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  10. This was a wonderful poem. After stumbling on to your site I cant wait to read more.

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