HOPING this is an improvement Latest rendition of Poetry's Spell Oct. 30 FOR Oct. 31 2024

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Oct 30, 2024, 7:07:38 PM10/30/24

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Dear Compadres,

Oct. 30, 2024

Dear compadres,

I worked some more on Poetry's Spell.

I wasn't all that happy with my LAST 3 lines in it, previously.

OR where I had placed the bit about Plato.

In this new rendition, I have indulged in "glittering generalities" in the last 3 lines--usually considered "a very bad thing" in poetry.

Yet I'm hoping it works, here.

Sadly, I could be wrong.

The "spells" I refer to are poems. As the title points out.

Jill

Jill Stockinger

Poetry's Spell

When sounds and meaning
are married harmoniously,
this art
may seduce the heart
and set the blood to dancing.
No wonder Plato
distrusted poetry so deeply.
With words that sing
melodiously, the mind
may be held in a trance
beyond the reach of reason.
Caught in spells
which defy dry logic,
one enters a land of mystery,
of wonder and enchantment.