Hi, thanks for dropping by.

 

Since I finally deployed my website & blog, I've perservered with this Flickr account primarily to participate in the DEDPXL assignments.

 

Without going into too much guff, but to give you a sense of who I am, the poem below speaks to me so much - I nearly cry every time I read it.

 

Have a good one.

 

Iain

 

Introduction To Poetry

 

I ask them to take a poem

and hold it up to the light

like a color slide

 

or press an ear against its hive.

 

I say drop a mouse into a poem

and watch him probe his way out,

 

or walk inside the poem's room

and feel the walls for a light switch.

 

I want them to waterski

across the surface of a poem

waving at the author's name on the shore.

 

But all they want to do

is tie the poem to a chair with rope

and torture a confession out of it.

 

They begin beating it with a hose

to find out what it really means.

 

- Billy Collins