Poetic License: ‘Magic Is the Muse Light’
Table of Contents:
A First Word Sestina
Introduction Lines 1-2
Muse Lines 3-8
Memory Lines 9-14
Metaphor Lines 15-20
Music Lines 21-26
Meaning Lines 27-32
Magic Lines 33-38
Envoi Lines 39-41
The M & M’s of my poems
Melt in my mind —
Muse begins them all, mixing
memory with
metaphor, my words with
music, making new
meaning of old
magic —
Magic is the
muse light, moving
meaning through mazes of
memory, myth and
music, past mind-fields of
metaphor —
metaphor metamorphosing,
magic tricks of mind-
music be-
muse my
memory, my
meaning —
meaning is nothing but
metaphor and
memory, word-
magic to a-
muse a
muse sick for words —
music has its own
meaning, its own
muse whispering wordless
metaphors to the
magic ear of
memory then
memory makes moments into
music, into measured
magic: the miracle of
meaning we call
metaphor, the gift we call
muse —
Muse, your magic triumphs again, content
To make music and meaning of my contents,
Memorable metaphors of all my M’s —