Poetry is a very dangerous word.
—Tom Waits
Marian’s musical prompt today for the writers’ group Imaginary Garden with Real Toads features the song All the World is Green by Academy Award-nominated singer/songwriter Tom Waits. His lyrics are wondrous.
Marian included the above quotation from Tom, and it reminded me of the times in my life when poetry had a death-grip on my mind.
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poetry is dangerous
it takes you by the heart
and by the neck
it wakes you in the night
and keeps you up
it hits you at your job
so you can't work
it calls you on the road
so you can't drive
it haunts your every mood
and so you think
never
will you write it again
until the next time
and the next
and the next
© Kay L. Davies, 2012
