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Poetry – Ideas Dressed up with Some Place to Go
A poem need not be so overdressed
That it embarrasses free-verse poseurs
Awash in self-absorbed, self-pitying tears
The sound of one first-person pronoun clapping
But still they should be instructed
That a poem is not about the poet
It is about the reader who has turned
His attention and the writer’s pages
To the existential questions of life
And so is properly dressed for its work
2 comments:
I wholeheartedly agree. On the other hand...
The sound of two hands not clapping? :)
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