<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=423693" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poem about Poetry - Born poets, made poets</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">born poet, nature's gift<br>the beauty of god's essence<br>caught in every bloom and season</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the years caught, preserved<br>in the lines and cracks<br>of a treasured antique <br>that never fails to excite a collector</div><div style="margin:10px 0">made poet, from him <br>scholastic verses that trace every<br>perception, but blurly hits on <br>their exact sequence</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the echo of the poetic self usually<br>missing - God did not put it there -<br>a crescent that entrances but <br>never as much as a glorious full moon</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a blindman's quest to tell<br>the bends and squaring of a lane <br>after having been led <br>through it a hundred times</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the thinly veiled struggle between <br>confidence and diffidence<br>the perceived and the real</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the pain to put each <br>in its proper order the way <br>nature has done it, minus all<br>elements of pretensions, or ignorance<br>that come lose through each written word</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a net sieving out the made poet</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Tiong+Chunghoo">John Tiong Chunghoo</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=423693" data-title="Poem about Poetry - Born poets, made poets de John Tiong Chunghoo" data-description="born poet, nature's gift the beauty of god's essence caught in every bloom and season the years caught, preserved in the lines and cracks of a treasured antique that never fails to excite a collector made poet, from him scholastic verses that ..."></div> </div> </div>

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