<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=435602" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Flavor That Is Savored</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Being able to connect, <br>To the reading audience.<br>Makes one poet...<br>More appreciated than the next! <br>A consciousness has been affected.<br>An expectation achieved...<br>That feeds an anticipation one gets! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If one poet is obsessed, <br>With maidens on islands with white alabaster skin.<br>Or Vikings from the old country, <br>Pursuing Cyclops with Zeus...<br>Chatting with Sophocles sipping on gin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well...<br>The writer may be thrilled, <br>Getting goosebumps and chills from the aspect of it.<br>However...<br>The reader of such a description, <br>May not 'get' the meaning of what the poem depicts.<br>And may not care if the poet was a college graduate...<br>With certificates from Harvard or Yale.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If what is written does not connect, <br>To an emotion or a collective imagination...<br>One poet with college degrees, <br>May not be as popular<br>As another who has an appetite to write.<br>And may sleep on a ghetto street at night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is much like cooking! <br>Writing is.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some love to do it.<br>While others who 'say' they can cook...<br>Should be ushered from the kitchen! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Quality is not determined by the schooling of it.<br>Nor is common sense something that can be taught.<br>It is like one's taste.<br>If the flavor is savored...<br>The only ones finding disapproval, <br>Are the ones discussing the ingredients used.<br>And ultimately looking like fools...<br>As they are surrounded by those licking off their plates!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</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=435602" data-title="Flavor That Is Savored de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Being able to connect, To the reading audience. Makes one poet... More appreciated than the next! A consciousness has been affected. An expectation achieved... That feeds an anticipation one gets! If one poet is obsessed, With maidens on isla..."></div> </div> </div>

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