Relationships

As I was browsing an art instruction book this morning, I came across this, "Do not paint things, paint relationships." So true for poetry too. Relationships and then in my email pops up this poem by Dave Bonta, entitled Loggerhead. check it out on www.wordpress.com, Poets for Living Waters emails the poems to me. This particular writing is more of a description and behaviour poem, and what brings it to life for me is the relationships the turtle has in marine life. From my POV, this also is why "still lifes" should not be called still lifes. Because if they are "relationships" then they are dynamic. Do poets write "still lifes?" Are they dynamic, with energy and passion? Those are the poems that survive.