What it is, "Figuratively"

"tommorrow I plan to just post some personal pictures. Don't know if anyone really reads this but I figure I might as well"

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis wrote about

"Literature" that "Once you can express yourself you can tell the world what you want from it"

The book "How to read a poem" suggests that what happens between the poet and the reader is dependant on "figurative language". Figures of speech, figures of thought. One of the main approaches to this being the metaphor.

Metaphor says one thing meaning but means something else.

Poetry is made of metaphor

Perhaps this fence could be a poem?

This is a picture of a fence I often see on my runs. It is so different from what I had seen of fences before New Mexico.

Dirt, stucco, natural wood and sky stand out as I look at it. The wood seems so "in place" and the uneven top seems to be needed.

In some ways even pictures seem to be poetic.

This picture of this fence has a message, for me.

Caroline points out that all the changes in the world, for good or evil,

were first brought about by words.

The power of verse is derived from an

indefinable harmony between

"what it says, and what it is"






In Caroline Kennedy's book about her mothers best loved poems she among many others listed this POEM below.

Psalm of David

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures;

he leadeth me beside still waters.

He restoreth my soul; he leadeth me in the paths of

righteousness for his name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of

death, I will fear no evil; for thou are with me;

thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine

enemies; thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.