This Poem was Submitted By: James C. Horak On Date: 2008-11-17 09:16:24 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!To Listen to Music While Reading this Poem, just Click Here!
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The Society of Poets To see imagery unfurl
flowing forth each into
another
No context lost, meaning
missed
To have stood with the poet
in the fires of what it takes
unrelenting
The heaps of partial success about
to be kissed by one moment
of perfection |
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Copyright © November 2008 James C. Horak
Additional Notes:
To someone we all know on a magnificent achievement.
This Poem was Critiqued By: Claire H. Currier On Date: 2008-12-05 16:57:10
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
Nicely stated James......it is always nice to give praises for a magnificent achievement.
This Poem was Critiqued By: Mark Steven Scheffer On Date: 2008-12-01 10:12:21
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 9.60000
JCH,
Indeed, striving for moments of perfection; that's what it is all about. One must live one's life - is one aspires to be a poet - in anticipation of those moments. Which is where the work comes in, a constant building toward readiness for those moments of visitation, vision. One of the poets who helps me get ready for such moments, Hart Crane, spoke wonderfully in one of his letters about the need to immerse one's self in words, to read, read, read the masters, so that when those moments come, they come to someone ready to shape them in the context of tradition and a universal imagery and genius that went before. To make something "new" in a meaningful way requires a departure from something, and the departure invests the newness with its own vitality and meaning - an informed and directed "newness."
Perfection can come in many forms, and has many faces. Though we must be ready to meet it, we meet it in different ways. We can not meet it at all without the work of getting ready.
A good pean to the eternal process, and to the society of seekers of perfection.
MSS
This Poem was Critiqued By: Rene L Bennett On Date: 2008-11-25 06:39:32
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 1.00000
James,
I gotta say, I really love this! You always have a way of penning such beauty with words that flow from this readers tongue. Another write to be proud of.
Rene'
This Poem was Critiqued By: Dellena Rovito On Date: 2008-11-20 16:53:32
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 1.00000
James,
Love this.............one moment of perfection...ah!
We are an unrelenting group, I must say.
A poet is, and must speak through their poem.
I love the use of fire, honing in on growing.
Who had a magnificent achievement? I'm curious.
And good for them.
It's your turn for achievement.
Dellena
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