PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

I will not say that I have fully figured you out,

because your Poetry is too vast for that.

But I think I have, at least, a handle on what

that Poetry does (and, may I say, does very well).

You are a Constellator, a part of Poetry's most ancient tradition.

"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale

"her infinite variety."

Millenia ago, human eyes gazed upon the

night sky's multitudinous array of stars---
most of them in fixed positions, but then

those seven wanderers were always moving about.

Such beauty was too much for the human mind---

as it was then or is now---to take in.

So the Constellators, the Poets, charted,

designated, and named certain patterns

according to the tales told in their poems, to

help us find an organizing principle

(chaos being repugnant and not at all very

helpful).  After all, even Adam named the

animals in Eden (before he took that

nasty, serpentine slip-and-fall).

Your Poetry, Patricia, not only names, but

patterns, the various components of human experience,

constellating the catalogue of our circumstances to

bring an order of observation to it, which will then

yield an order of understanding of it, which will

enable the calm acceptance of our existence within it.

The great Constellators of Poetry have already welcomed you among them:

this is proven---demonstrated---by the kind of Poetry you write.

Starward