The Shape Of Words

This Tuesday’s Poem is The Shape Of Words (desert love poem) by Odawni AJ Palmer.

It’s beautiful, and those who weren’t charmed by last week’s prose poem may be relieved to know this one is a poem poem (there has to be a better phrase than that).

One of the links in the sidebar led me to Stoatspring where Harvey McQueen had chosen A.R.D. Fairburn’s Song At Summer’s End.

The opening lines Down in the park the children play/rag-happy through the summer’s day . . .  took me back to third form English where we learned the poem by heart and were introduced to the power of metaphor.