Paper Poetry November 2024 prompt
Patterns of Poetry
With some help from Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
would our lives be simpler
could each one of us be happier
if we knew life were laid out
in a tiled pattern of black and white
Who would have thought black ‘n’ white floor tiles would be the inspiration for a philosophically fanciful twittle!
But as you can see, they were and now we’re here!
Greetings to our Paper Poetry friends and thank you for being here.
It never ceases to amaze me how poetry has the power to align, merge, illuminate and magnify what would otherwise be unrelated concepts.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of Britain’s most influential Romantic poets, said it much better than me —
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
Percy Bysshe Shelley was also the one who, in his unfinished essay A Defence of Poetry, famously wrote —
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
