by Margaret Colangelo | | Poetry
Some,
find themselves
on Sundays
in Communion
with the leisure
of a lazy morning,
Cold wash first-
but I work
slowly
as no one pauses
to fold their
quiet time
into mine.
Separates
turn to
one
sharing sacred space.
Woven baskets carried-
constant collections.
"Poetry is as strong now as it was hundreds of years ago. Kendrick Lamar is doing the same things that John Donne did. One of these we love, the other we get traumatic experiences from High School Lit. We might hesitate to call Lamar’s work “poetry” because it brings to mind old dead white men and incomprehensible Middle English, but the mechanics of poetry are all there.
Rhyme? Yep. Meter? Uh huh. Stanzas? All there. Heck, I would make the argument that sophistication is not even a prerequisite to poetry. “Twinkle Twinkle”? Poetry. “F*ck the Police”? Poetry."
Kevin Chen