The Power in a Poem
This is for a very dear friend of mine, who just published a new book of poetry. If anyone happens to like poetry and can get a copy of Witness and Resist by Marilyn Lerch, I highly recommend they do so. Her work has been called 'passionately personal and deftly political,' and it is that, and much more. I'm trying to decide whether or not I really want her to read this...
For Marilyn
When I read your poems
my cogitations came to me
translated into verse
by You:
a wizard of words,
who unlocked for me
that world of subtlety, suggestion
and anti-prose,
and taught me what power there is
in a single word.
with love from Helen, 2008
For Marilyn
When I read your poems
my cogitations came to me
translated into verse
by You:
a wizard of words,
who unlocked for me
that world of subtlety, suggestion
and anti-prose,
and taught me what power there is
in a single word.
with love from Helen, 2008