Important Business, This Poetry

PAD Challenge Day 28: For today’s prompt, take the phrase “Important (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write the poem.

Important business this, the art

Of baring pieces of the heart

For stranger’s eyes to criticize

Or interpret, at least in part

Important business this, the dare

To splay heart pieces on thin air

For other lips and fingertips

To touch with much less thought or care

Important business this, the taunt

Of restless air requesting font

With lowly pen we trace its yen

And draw a poem from its vaunt

Important business this, the ought

That shapes a word that shapes a thought

That shapes a mind; ah, be not blind

To those who find what ink has wrought

Important business this, for we

Who teach not eyes, but hearts to see

As we lay bare on naked air

Heart-pieces shaped in poetry

© Janet Martin