MY STYLE

MY STYLE

I have
this way ofwriting.
Short
and sweet,
cropped
and chopped
to stab you
directly
in your heart,
your brain,
to inject
my thoughts
into your veins
so that you may
feel
think
experience
what it is
that my words
have to offer.

There are others who have a much more
prosaic style of expression.
Every sentence is a work of art
guarenteed to teach some lesson
of the heart, or the mind, maybe even
the soul ... they pour themselves onto
paper, hoping to reap the benefits
of waiting and reading and deciphering
the letters, the words, the lines.
These poets search for intonation
and they dig, an exploration
into the psyche, into love, into the forces
that have greater ramifications
than even they can dream about ...

But I digress ...

Here I am,
all that I am.
I can lift you,
let you crash
and burn amidst
your own ruins
only to lift you again
so that you can see
once and for all
what it is really like
to fly.

And that --
is my style.


Michelle Balletto-Wooten
© 3-18-11