Prosody (n) the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry; the patterns of stress and information in a language

The what if always springs from what is known. The writer understand that it may take the mavericks rather than the beautiful people to overcome great odds because every work of art is the discovery of a new planet, and it may well be a hostile one.*
Madeleine L’Engle

There are more than we know, and
you may be one of them –
To live prosodically is to be what if
rather than what is people, to be “on the hook”
when it comes to being who we are and
what we can do, to be an unfolding story
rather than some finished tome.

To be an artist is to be on the hook, to take your turn, to do the thing that might not work, to see connection, to embrace generosity, to change someone, to be human.**

*Madeleine L’Engle’s Walking on Water;
**Seth Godin’s It’s Your Turn.