! Dancing The Invisible Line

Some like to sit on fences, admire the view in safety; some are born hurdlers; . draw a line, and some minds shrink back; others can’t wait to compete, first over wins… poets, said the sage, should always walk on the edge of madness… ah, remember when you were a child, walking down the path one foot within, one foot beyond? ‘a line of poetry’…every line, a line, one foot beyond, one foot within – prose, verse; rhymed, unrhymed; metered, unmetered; actual, fantasy; elevated, jokey; personal, impersonal; tragic, comic; a road taken, or not taken.. oh, so many lines that others painted on the road – dance down that road, one foot beyond, one foot within..