“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks”—Plutarch
What sense peers
Into the darkness
Hears a light
Why should poetry have to make sense?—Charlie Chaplin
What sense solves
Mysteries hidden
In plain sight
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth—Samuel Johnson
What sense reads
Patterns of life force
In light verse
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean—Socrates
What sense tunes
The grand unified
Universe
But the lover’s power is the poet’s power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung—Amelia Barr
What sense seeks
Serenity ekes
Vitality
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity —Walter Mosley
ESP
Elevated Sense
Poetry
Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku— Douglas R. Hofstadter
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GODSLAUGH.ME 
chaplin for the win.
You said it, Geo. Thanks.
Poets sow
Readers cultivate
Inspiration
Love this whole post but that last segment blew me away. I absolutely love that drawing and it’s accompanying poem. But all of it was a delight.
Thank you, LuAnne. 🙂
Btw, LuAnne, you may know that the Douglas R. Hofstadter quote, with the last panel in the post, is an “American Sentence haiku,” 17 syllables on one line, which no doubt contributed to that panel’s particular appeal to you 😉