<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=487658" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Explaining poetry</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How can I ever explain poetry? <br>To a child it would be easy<br>Eenie minee minee moe<br>Catch the monkey by the toe</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jack and Jill<br>Went up the hill<br>To get a pail of water<br>Is a poem easily understood by <br>A child</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But to an adult<br>How can I ever explain poetry? <br>Can I explain it with a straight <br>Look in the eye<br>And I will tell him<br>Poetry Is looking a person straight in the eye</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes you have only one more day to live? <br>Can I explain it to him<br>Like I have a gun and point it straight to his head<br>And say<br>Yes poetry kills and it kills you in a minute<br>And for free? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or can I explain poetry to him<br>Like I am on the tenth floor of this building<br>And I tell him I am so problematic<br>And all I have to do is <br>Jump and kill myself<br>And he would be there<br>To tell me<br>Life is beautiful<br>There is reason to live<br>That I am loved<br>That many people still care<br>That I have a mission<br>That I have lots of good things to do<br>That this world has meaning<br>That I am the child of this universe<br>That I am no less than the trees and the stars and that by all means<br>I have the right to be here</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That poetry can save<br>That poetry is one saving person holding one back to his senses<br>that poetry is hope, love, kindness<br>it has no word for hate<br>it does not kill<br>or enslave<br>or annihilate<br>Poetry is a decision<br>Not to jump.<br>That is poetry to me<br>And as an adult he must understand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</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=487658" data-title="Explaining poetry de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="How can I ever explain poetry? To a child it would be easy Eenie minee minee moe Catch the monkey by the toe Jack and Jill Went up the hill To get a pail of water Is a poem easily understood by A child But to an adult How can I ever explain po..."></div> </div> </div>

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