<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459581" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A postmodern explanation of poetry: for Mike who asked</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The brain and spinal cord<br>contain a hundred billion neuron cells<br>backed up by many more glial cells..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">each neuron surrounded by its dendrons<br>like a tree’s inquisitive, hungry roots<br>or a seacreature’s gently waving fronds</div><div style="margin:10px 0">making synapses, new connections<br>between what one cell holds, and another, <br>as a tree’s roots seek its heavenly nourishment in earth; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">so that, each time two words of poetry, <br>put together for the first time by a poet<br>in just that way, strike your mind or heart, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">one of those neurons cries silently ‘Aha! ’<br>as poetry’s roots and fingers touch its core; <br>two neurons now joined in holy bedrock..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and since our mind, some say, is but our store<br>of memories previously received, <br>then poetry enjoyed, remembered, builds our greater mind; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and all this, like the champions of the Olympics, <br>so appropriately named after that godly height, <br>might well be described by corny commentators as, <br>sheer poetry in motion…</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459581" data-title="A postmodern explanation of poetry: for Mike who asked de Michael Shepherd" data-description="The brain and spinal cord contain a hundred billion neuron cells backed up by many more glial cells.. each neuron surrounded by its dendrons like a tree’s inquisitive, hungry roots or a seacreature’s gently waving fronds making synapses, new..."></div> </div> </div>

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