Lines To A Writer Poem by Ananta Madhavan

Utterance is a commitment.
Therefore be imprecise in speech,
Use words like chords,
Press many keys at once.
Imply blurred meanings
With multiple entendre;
For syllables and sounds
Are an incantation,
Gliding through salt pillars
In the caverns of the mind,
Not amplified, but transfigured,
Into boisterous echoes,
Thronging and throbbing
To be greeted and repeated.
Surely, rhyme has a reason.
Clarity is, like chastity,
A virtue of exclusion.
The best poets have been
Mixers of metaphors.