I think today's poem requires little in the way of explanation.
When the idea came to me and I tried to capture it on paper, I struggled to squeeze as much into eight short lines as I possibly could.
I was operating then under the mistaken impression that Capper's ... where I was thinking I might submit it ... only published eight-line poems.
I believe, however, that I may have succeeded in conveying my central message: The world does take on a new aspect when we view it with "new eyes."
Oh, if we could just manage to maintain that perspective.
The poem:
TRANSFORMATION
The landscape
seems different
from yesterday,
brighter, softer,
and yet the same
in all details.
Could it be that
© 1996
(originally published in Capper's)
Today's word: transformation
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