by Glen Martin Fitch
When players
know their instruments so well
that thought is act
and both of them are one
or when impassioned poets
in a spell hear chanting faster
than a pen can run
or when an artist
in a vision's trance
knows where and
when and how
to yield accord
or when an actor,
learned in voice and stance,
can be beside himself
in spirits stored
or when a dancer
whirling past all pain
can feel the sense
of weightless,
formless flight
or when beyond thought
one can yet retain
the order of a sport
or test or rite,
it's then that one draws
pleasure out of strife,
one moment's taste of
lost immortal life.
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ABOUT THE POET ~
Glen Fitch is a 16th Century poet lost in the 21st Century. Born near Niagara Falls, educated in the Catskills, thirty years on the Monterey Bay he now lives in Palm Springs. Retail not academics has paid the bills. Someday he will finish Spenser's "The Fairie Queene."
Last updated August 23, 2011