<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366264" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Getting to Know You</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poetry pretty much mirrors<br>Different stages and places<br>In one’s life</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s given away… in what you say<br>In your sense <br>of peace or strife</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your words describe you…<br>They strip from your soul<br>The shrouds and lay bare…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your true thoughts, your ambitions<br>Your insights, your inhibitions<br>You perhaps unknowingly share</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s a venting perhaps…<br>A release from the restraints…<br>Of cold hard reality</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In some it’s of hope<br>In others of complaints<br>And in others still…of finality</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In others it’s a cry for validation<br>A way of saying “I’m me…<br>I’m still here! ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In others It’s a cry of repudiation<br>Saying “listen to me now, <br>But don’t come near! ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I read a poem <br>I see the person<br>Behind the prose</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And that I see…<br>this person properly<br>Is something I can only suppose</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You’re not writing a poem or a rhyme<br>You’re openly inviting me into your mind<br>And just why? …only God knows</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One develops opinions about you<br>And biases, both good and bad<br>Based on what you’ve unknowingly said</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In your writings, choice of subject<br>Turn of phrase, become suspect<br>And lets one get into your head</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps I should not…perhaps it’s not right<br>But I know you a bit better <br>each poem that you write</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Whalen">David Whalen</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=366264" data-title="Getting to Know You de David Whalen" data-description="Poetry pretty much mirrors Different stages and places In one’s life It’s given away… in what you say In your sense of peace or strife Your words describe you… They strip from your soul The shrouds and lay bare… Your true thoughts, y..."></div> </div> </div>

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