<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=489823" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Is This Poetry?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">they write the most complicated<br>arrangement of words<br>and give them their own tones<br>and colors and smell<br>and to a certain extent <br>of sophistication you do not<br>understand anything<br>with all the symbolism<br>and metaphorizing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">suns talking and moons sneering<br>and cats yawning and seaweeds<br>dancing and spirits blitzing<br>and cornucopia feasting<br>and ambrosia sleeping<br>and cupid and psyche<br>dating and lamps lighting<br>and darkness enclosing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and you complain<br>that you do not understand a thing<br>and you say you hate poetry</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and this poet asks you: do you understand? <br>and you honestly say, with a matching shaking of your head<br>and stamping of your feet: what are you telling me? I do not understand<br>what your poem is saying.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and he laughs, 'anything that you do not understand is poetry'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and so from that time on, you pretend to understand poetry<br>simply because, in truth, you do not like it<br>and on such pretense, you successfully murdered<br>everything that he wrote.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">poems are dead, now they are burying them.</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=489823" data-title="Is This Poetry? de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="they write the most complicated arrangement of words and give them their own tones and colors and smell and to a certain extent of sophistication you do not understand anything with all the symbolism and metaphorizing suns talking and moons snee..."></div> </div> </div>

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