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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461030" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poets Are Holy Hypocrites</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">poets are holy hypocrites; <br>it’s their blessing and their curse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">they sit for as long as it takes<br>like terriers at a foxhole</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or for second-best practice, <br>at a rabbit-hole, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">totally still, alert, all their powers<br>poured into attention; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">what a lesson dogs<br>are for humans</div><div style="margin:10px 0">then – a movement in<br>their consciousness; it could be</div><div style="margin:10px 0">anything creative – a film, a poem; <br>and with it comes the sense</div><div style="margin:10px 0">of wonder; they are as children<br>living in an eternal present</div><div style="margin:10px 0">of the universe as gift; <br>they take up their pen or keyboard</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and, so carefully, as they<br>would handle a new-born baby, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">write down this spell for that it is<br>for the benefit of others quite unknown</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and then like a christening shawl, <br>white, soft, handmade with love, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">offer it to the world.<br>then some who believe its magic</div><div style="margin:10px 0">read the spell, are reborn<br>or cured, or restored</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to good health and humour<br>or simply have a good day</div><div style="margin:10px 0">while those who don’t believe the spell, <br>well of course the magic doesn’t work for them</div><div style="margin:10px 0">so far so very good. But then<br>those who aren’t into wanting spells</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and have opinions about<br>their opinions, say, that word is wrong, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">so it’s not a magic spell. it’s a bad spell, <br>in fact it’s not a spell at all</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and others who also have opinions<br>about their opinions, say, that word is right, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">so it’s a good and magic spell; and there they are, <br>all crowded round peering through their</div><div style="margin:10px 0">dirty glasses, pushing and shoving and shouting<br>to get nearer the spell and have their say</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and oh dear, there's the poet in there too<br>saying oh do you really think that</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'd better look at it again<br>and see if you might be right</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and sad to say, some poets<br>begin to worry, about whether</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the words of their spell are quite right<br>not trusting the magic, as if</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it came from them and not from itself...<br>and the magic shrugs its shoulders</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and says oh well and goes some place else<br>where it might be more appreciated</div><div style="margin:10px 0">poets are holy hypocrites; <br>it’s their blessing and their curse</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>[with more than a little acknowledgement to the vision of Michael Leunig, cartoonist and Living National Treasure]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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it’s their blessing and their curse.

they sit for as long as it takes
like terriers at a foxhole

or for second-best practice, 
at a rabbit-hole, 

totally still, alert, all their powers
poured into attention; 

what..."></div>
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