<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351265" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Introduction To Poetry</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ask them to take a poem<br>and hold it up to the light <br>like a color slide</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or press an ear against its hive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I say drop a mouse into a poem<br>and watch him probe his way out,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or walk inside the poem's room<br>and feel the walls for a light switch.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I want them to waterski<br>across the surface of a poem<br>waving at the author's name on the shore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But all they want to do<br>is tie the poem to a chair with rope<br>and torture a confession out of it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They begin beating it with a hose<br>to find out what it really means.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Billy+Collins">Billy Collins</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351265" data-title="Introduction To Poetry de Billy Collins" data-description="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..."></div> </div> </div>

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