MTB: Ars Poetica Revisited
Ars Poetica
I write because silence became too heavy to carry.
A poem asks for nothing except honesty. It doesn’t argue, it simply opens a window and lets another soul look inside.
Some words arrive like old friends, others like birds landing unexpectedly on my shoulder.
I have learned that poems cannot change what has already happened.
But they can change the heart that remembers.
So I keep writing—
not because I have all the answers,
but because every poem leaves a little more light than it found.
This week we revisit the venerable tradition of the Ars Poetica, Latin for “the art of poetry.” Traditionally, an Ars Poetica is a poem about poetry itself: why we write, what poems do, how language works upon us, and what we hope our words might accomplish. From Horace to Archibald MacLeish and countless contemporary poets, writers have used the form to explore their relationship with the craft. An Ars Poetica often becomes a personal manifesto, a meditation, or a declaration of faith in poetry itself.
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With love, coffee, poetry, and stardust,
— Maggie The Afterlove Voice 💫
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