Living Poetry
By Don Iannone

Live a rich and understanding life,
and you will have poetry,
Chain yourself to what you know,
or even worse, what you think you know,
and you will doubt your poetry's presence,
See life as a garden, overflowing with
beauty, surprise, serendipity, and splendor,
and you willingly exchange being for knowing,
See life as an abstract knowledge factory,
saddled with rules, definitions, and restrictions,
and you will have an over-bound world filled with people,
who distrust themselves and blame others
for their own blindness,
Open your eyes; those that help you see
the poetry your soul wants you to be.