<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360312" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Next Poem</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How much better it seems now<br>than when it is finally done–<br>the unforgettable first line,<br>the cunning way the stanzas run.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rhymes soft-spoken and suggestive<br>are barely audible at first,<br>an appetite not yet acknowledged<br>like the inkling of a thirst.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While gradually the form appears<br>as each line is coaxed aloud–<br>the architecture of a room<br>seen from the middle of a crowd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The music that of common speech<br>but slanted so that each detail<br>sounds unexpected as a sharp<br>inserted in a simple scale.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No jumble box of imagery <br>dumped glumly in the reader's lap<br>or elegantly packaged junk<br>the unsuspecting must unwrap.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But words that could direct a friend<br>precisely to an unknown place,<br>those few unshakeable details<br>that no confusion can erase.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the real subject left unspoken<br>but unmistakable to those<br>who don't expect a jungle parrot<br>in the black and white of prose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How much better it seems now<br>than when it is finally written.<br>How hungrily one waits to feel<br>the bright lure seized, the old hook bitten.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dana+Gioia">Dana Gioia</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=360312" data-title="The Next Poem de Dana Gioia" data-description="How much better it seems now than when it is finally done– the unforgettable first line, the cunning way the stanzas run. The rhymes soft-spoken and suggestive are barely audible at first, an appetite not yet acknowledged like the inkling of a ..."></div> </div> </div>

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