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What is a poem |
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N|D|N|C|Lost-Poet Member
since 2009-07-30
Posts 360New Orleans |
What is a poem but a window to the soul What is a poem but a door with no handle The unseen yet unhidden from sight The contradiction of contribution The darkness in light What is a poem if it is not something real If a woman can look spy the beauty of a man Then can the man find the beauty of a woman? Ah, but who am I to speak on what a poem is. A poet filled with poetry is a pen filled with ink. The pen does not decide what to write, the hand is its master So if a poet is to a pen, and ink is to poetry. What is the hand of a poet? "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde |
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Mysteria 
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
The hand is the lifeline to the unknown secrets of the mind? Got me thinking here, and that is hard sometimes.  |
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GBride Senior Member
since 2009-07-02
Posts 538 |
An insiteful and provocative write. I am inspired with your wisdom. Wow, what talent! |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
.....and what of the heart? Can a poet's mind work without it? ~? |
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martiniat8 Senior Member
since 2003-06-21
Posts 897Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic |
GREAT questions! The pen does not decide what to write, the hand is its master So if a poet is to a pen, and ink is to poetry. What is the hand of a poet? Just last week, I was writing in my composition book (I prefer the feel of pencil) and I was writing the word, notion, but when I looked at my page, it said notation. So think on THAT! was the hand, the poet, the pencil, the mind or muse? We may never know, but when we see it, it becomes infused! as to poets, yesterday I rediscovered Kahlil Gibran's "The Poet" and it trully speaks as to and about from the heart and soul of me. Give it a read... http://www.quotesandpoem.com/poems/poeticworks/gibran/Khalil_Gibran_Poem_Collection_3/5 |
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