Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words
Lightning Poetry
By Maxwell Baumbach
in my dream
lightning struck
outside the mouths
of ordinary beings
turning the words they spoke
into poetry
it would be
beautiful
if
we could do that
in reality
on our own
Maxwell Baumbach’s poem Youth at its Finest (September 2010) is his most recent poem to appear at vox poetica.
This is powerful in so many ways.
You just did it!
This is the impulse all poets feel. To borrow from Mark Twain, we want to capture the lightning instead of the lightning bug. That said, lightning bugs can make for pretty poems as well. We live with a lot more lightning bugs than lightning.