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    Dave Hemmings
    Apr 10, 02:18pm

    Introduction to Poetry

    BY BILLY COLLINS

    I ask them to take a poem
    and hold it up to the light
    like a color slide

    or press an ear against its hive.

    I say drop a mouse into a poem
    and watch him probe his way out,

    or walk inside the poem’s room
    and feel the walls for a light switch.

    I want them to waterski
    across the surface of a poem
    waving at the author’s name on the shore.

    But all they want to do
    is tie the poem to a chair with rope
    and torture a confession out of it.

    They begin beating it with a hose
    to find out what it really means.

  • Samuel Derrick Rosen
    Apr 10, 05:40pm

    That has to be the best poem about poetry I have ever read, usually poems about writing poetry stink.

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    Dave Hemmings
    Apr 10, 05:42pm

    I am sure I will receive more backlash from the clique for merely posting it.

  • Samuel Derrick Rosen
    Apr 10, 05:43pm

    I think you should stay and we can continue to post interesting topics for discussion, just ignore them if they try to disrupt.

  • Samuel Derrick Rosen
    Apr 10, 05:44pm

    Not even mention them from now on.

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    Darryl Price
    Apr 12, 03:32pm

    Thank you Dave and Thank you Billy!

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