Day 14 NaPoWriMo. Today is for poetry lovers and who doesn’t love their poets more than Scotland. Here is the stamp from my ‘remember postcard’ on a trip to Scotland. Because it is the most generic of UK stamps, I included the post mark.
If you Google Scottish Poets, more than 50 photos pop up. Of course, we all know Robert Burns and Robert Louis Stevenson.
In Edinburgh, I got to see the “Poetry for the Palace – Poet Laureate from Dryden to Duffy” exhibit at the Palace of Holyroodhouse. Liz Lochhead was there. She signed her book for me.
I submitted my poem “Eddie” (about Edinburgh) to the Scottish Poetry Library. They accepted it and added it to their archive. Yah me!
See the World in a Poem
A book’s worth of something said
fitting on a single page,
half the width of a page.
Experiences expressed
Dreams shared
in a visceral, envisioned way.
Poetry is meant to be eaten
ingested and wondered upon,
felt in the heart and in the gut.
Poetry is a magic carpet
whisking us away
in a swirl
to a place, time, and freeze frame,
a new frame,
a different way of seeing.
How else
but in poetry
can we see, hear, feel, touch
and taste
a world,
run countless paths,
live as many lives
as our eyes and ears will carry us to.
See the World
in a poem.
Dawn at the Writers’ Museum in Edinburgh, Scotland
