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SPIRIT
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0 posted 2003-01-15 09:24 PM



THE POET

Sitting high,
Spotlighted,
On center stage,
The peasant bloused,
Flounce sleeved poet,
Verbally embraced
His somewhat captive audience.
An emotionally loud,
Self taught ‘Thesaurus Literate’
He expounded words,
That strung together,
Made little or no sense.
The polite audience
Feigned understanding,
Applauded enthusiastically,
Patrons of the Art
Fearing to show their ignorance.

The question then is
‘Who is the bigger fool’
The poet or the audience?


I am an enigma, even unto myself.
A puzzle unsolved, a mystery maybe until beyond death.  ©das


© Copyright 2003 das - All Rights Reserved
Joyce Johnson
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1 posted 2003-01-15 11:26 PM


I love this.  I compare this preposterous situation to the Tale of the Emperor Who Wore No Clothes. Joyce
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SPIRIT
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3 posted 2003-04-19 08:39 AM


Okay! you dug this one out from somewhere before time.
Joyce Johnson
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4 posted 2003-04-19 12:25 PM


Fun to see this again.  Joyce
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5 posted 2003-04-20 12:54 PM


I think I have been part of that audience at least a couple of times.  To each his own I guess. I appreciate poetry that I can at least understand and relate to. I guess I am just a simple person, with a simple vocabulary.
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6 posted 2005-06-17 09:45 AM


SPIRIT~
Hoping you will come visit us with another fine poetic piece~

*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

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7 posted 2005-06-17 01:45 PM


SPIRIT:  Unfortunately, good manners sometimes requires enthusiasm, when what we really feel is boredom!

Betty Lou

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