Meaning of sonnet 1 by Jose garcia villa?

im john mark mañago and i would like to share you guys the answer / critical analysis of Sonnet 1 by jose garcia ..

First, a poem must be magical

Then musical as a sea-gull.

Villa said, "These lines mean exactly what they say: That a poem must have magic, and it must be musical."

I asked the poet, "What meaning would you ascribe to the next lines?"

It must be a brightness moving

And hold secret a bird's flowering.

Villa explained, "There are some brightnesses which are stationary and static, but a poem, like a bird, must fly. This is the difference between prose and poetry. Prose is flatfooted and stationary; poetry soars, flies like a bird. The stationary bird,

when first seen, appears like a rosebud. When it begins to fly, it opens up and spreads its wings and blooms like a flower."

I asked him to explain the images in the fifth and sixth lines,

It must be slender as a bell

And it must hold fire as well.

To these lines, Villa responded, "A poem is economical; it's slender as a bell, it has no adipose tissue; it's lean and clean. Poorly written poems should, of necessity, go on a diet, to rid themselves of excess verbiage and adjectives. And by 'fire' in the next line, I simply mean that a poem must have a spirit."

"I have always found the next lines difficult to comprehend," I confessed:

It must have the wisdom of bows

And it must kneel like a rose.

"You must remember," Villa said, "some lines and some poems cannot be explained. But let me try. I am speaking of the archer's bow. A good bow is one that knows when to shoot, and one that directs the arrow to its mark. Just as a good poem, it never goes astray. To 'kneel like a rose'...