<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=549271" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Creativity/ Like My Father On His Deathbed</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poetry is not about words.<br>Poetry flows<br>from experiences that hover beyond words, <br>a shining memory sounding muffled<br>hidden behind a familiar door.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The words of a poem <br>are the funeral of my old father, <br>magnificent, feisty and watchful, <br>available to the last<br>through indefinable gestures<br>and a shining silence<br>existent somewhere else now <br>as poetry is, the real poem, <br>not the heavy coffin of the print.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poetry pines for it’s lost world, <br>its hidden home, <br>like a swan still singing on a plate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is homesick, alone, away<br>from its chosen canyons and <br>mountain trees around the lake, <br>vibrant with colour <br>in memories that glow<br>for a lifetime.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You know, as I do, poetry is not words, <br>but is a royal personage, <br>my father on his deathbed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Iain+Trousdell">Iain Trousdell</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=549271" data-title="Creativity/ Like My Father On His Deathbed de Iain Trousdell" data-description="Poetry is not about words. Poetry flows from experiences that hover beyond words, a shining memory sounding muffled hidden behind a familiar door. The words of a poem are the funeral of my old father, magnificent, feisty and watchful, availab..."></div> </div> </div>

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