Poetry isn’t copywriting; if you can’t believe in the thing you’re writing about, it will sound fake. In poetry (as in sex) you can fake it, but the other party will know.- Jo Bell, poet
That's the way it is! Thank you for that Ann.
With poetry in the mix there are endless possibilities for change. I can relate to Jo's experience that a company hired her to express poetically their company mission and culture. I had something of a similar experience when I was in the process of selling an education company I had founded and needed to know if the interested buyer was one that I felt I could work for. The thing that cemented it for me was the meeting I had with the company's VP of education and curriculum development. He was astonishingly literate and poetic and passionate about quality education. He blew me away. It turned out to be the right choice. If every company had to pass a poetic interpretation test we might see a more compassionate form of capitalism. Wouldn't that be loverly?
From time to time (this time being the most recent) I feel like I expose myself for being what others might call gullible or naive or just plain "too lazy to see the truth behind the facade" when in fact it's not that I fail to see it, but I choose to look beyond it; I look for the poetry that is everywhere waiting. I don't always find it.
Thanks for being so open.
Oh, and the music in the vid was a little over the top
Bill, thanks for checking in -- I'm glad but not surprised that you see the video as I see it. You have not an ounce of political correctness (the bad kind) in you, do you? - congratulations on that. I'm still working on it. Left wing needs a right wing to fly, donnit? Ha!