God Poems: The Spirit of the Word: essay by Matthew Riley
God Poems: The Spirit of the Word by Matthew Riley Are not all things poetry? Poetry of motion, color, sound, form, feelings, emotions, ideas. Then the poet is a recorder of all things within a single human experience, using the senses to record experience from an internal perspective. How he or she perceives reality through an individual and unique mind, heart, and circumstance. Maybe we should state now that a poet is not just a recorder, if so, we could say a poet is just providing news, an inventory, a science devoid of human intuition and creativity. So let us say the poet is a recorder of a single human experience whose aim is to perfect the expression of human experience with words. I think of the wonderful poem by Tomas Tranströmer, which ends, Words, words, but no language. Where do we begin to discuss the use of words in the current era? We can go way back to the Enlightenment or even further, but I will start with the advent of modern linguistic...
