THE JOURNEY: Response to Poetry--Karen

WEEK FOUR: The Journey

POET: Jennyj: SCHEMING STRENGTH
PARTNER-POET: Karen--Elusive Imaginings

Elusive Imaginings
...like feathers on the wind...

A fragile figment flutters softly down,
landing with grace but not a single sound.
Feather soft, it sits on the barren page
awaiting my pen which will craft its stage.

Pen, hand as one begin to form and shape
fashioning the scene, designing the drape.
Fair figment hovers on the gentle breeze
created by pen strokes flowing with ease.

Then a darkened cloud suddenly takes form.
Strong blowing wind; it's threatening to storm.
I grasp at the figment, but it takes flight.
Before I can grasp, it is gone from sight.

I wait in the darkness holding my pen,
hoping the figment will arrive again.
But it is gone – this I must consent.
My figment has flown, folded up its tent.

Elusive imaginings float on the wind
When one flutters by, I'll begin again.

Copyright © October 5, 2009 by Karen M. Crump

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. THE JOURNEY: Responsive Poetry Exercise

This inital response is not reviewing. It is a "response:"
1. "What does this poem inspire in you?"
.More grasping at illusive flying figments!

2. What does this poem say to you?"
The acknowledgment that a good thought or idea for poetry of the conscious mind and flutters by unattached and unguaranteed--we can but grasp at it, and it may light at our request, or not!

3. "What do you hear?"
That good thoughts are illusive and need to be caught and stroked into a poem.

4. "Where does it take you?"
It takes me to imagine catching thoughts as figments, and watching them as they develop into poems at their own pace, waiting for them to come through the voice of the muse/

5. "What does it 'make' you want to write yourself?"
A short figment has been dislodged from hiding, brought forth by this process:

FIGMENT OR WHOLE~~

Is my thoughty a figment or a whole??
A mere aspiration or a goal
to be written softly on the page,
or set up to be measured on a gage?
Is it a hard entity, or free,
is it a formed guideline--
or a BE???