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I have been discussing the difference with my students between representational and abstract art. Representational is a picture of what the artist sees, while abstract is a picture of the artist's feelings. Literature is like this too: prose is the representation, what the author sees, the audience also sees. Poetry is the abstract, the writing that shows the audience only pure feeling. Today, as the strong wind blows strongly through the trees, scattering red and golden leaves in it's wake, I have decided it's a poetry day. Humor me.
Like the phoenix who
Rises from its own ashes
I leave everything
Leaves fall from the trees
And are regenerated
Like some samadhi
Cinnamon colors
The atmosphere around us
My soul breathes it in
0 snow blossoms
