Lawrence
Hall, HSG
But Truly Write
Cf. Shakespeare,
Sonnet 21
…poems are gatherings
of words, in good order, in simple order, plain and appealing.
-Mary Oliver, A Poetry
Handbook, p. 77
A line of
contemporary prosetry
Is a catalogue
of florid structures and worn-out cliches
Pancaked
with adverbs and tiresome metaphors
Flung down
in a confusion of unconnected gasps
If you
have something to say, then say it
Then tidy
up the lines – like washing your face
With soap
and water and a cotton towel
And then
admire the sunlit, fresh-air truth
Craft your
lines of transcendent poetry
As clean
sharp-edg’ed truth in well-scrubbed words
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