"Who" Knows

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech. - Thoreau

it's what comes out when the lid's unscrewed

when tears are boo-hooed

what spills when emotions are tipped

what staggers when spirits are sipped

what's kept in taped boxes that never get shipped

what howls when indelible winds blow

what walks alone, with no footprints, in frigid snow

that which rises to the surface when empty rivers begin to flow

it's what throws hope when the light's unscrewed

what's sipped naked when coffee's not brewed

what drips on the counter when there's not enough for rent

what's still owed when lonely heart's are lent

what's been stuck and unfree in the darkest vent

kept and rarely spent

never what's communicated

always what's meant

Author's Note

"Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Poetic Beauty]

We are complicated people; who often bottle up the emotions and don’t say what we need to be said. Instead of communicating, we hide what is inside so as not to get hurt even more

[Re-Pete]

true. you're talking to the king of it. bottled up for a long periods of time 'til it blows like a champagne cork. better to speak our disapproval now than to scream it later.

[Poetic Beauty]

I have over the years learnt to
Communicate better. I tend to bottle up the more vulnerable feelings. The hurt sadness and disappointment

[Re-Pete]

you're not alone in that.