<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=498009" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>You Know How To Mix The Oil And The Water</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">between the oil and the water<br>put the soap<br>or the common detergent<br>that is how they do it</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in poetry it is not easy<br>to mix the oily feelings with the watery ones<br>and it is hard to check<br>which detergent to use<br>what is it that is having poetic sense? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">between them and you<br>how do you get well along the lines of poetry? <br>who is the water and who is the oil? <br>and who is the detergent among the metaphors<br>and the similes? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">takes time really. <br>at first we keep on writing these nonsense comparisons<br>trying to tell which one is best, better and good<br>which one is worse</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but sooner you realize that this has nothing to do with comparisons<br>it has only something to do with the clicking of the right switch<br>to give light <br>to the dark room where we live, to give the sound of the singing bird, <br>to give that hush, to make us sleep soundly<br>on a soft pillow, and then dream in another world<br>where we do not talk but merely observe how the colors float<br>how they pass us by</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and we are nothing but spectators always wanting to have no part<br>in everything <br>and that precisely is the light feeling<br>that makes the click</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=498009" data-title="You Know How To Mix The Oil And The Water de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="between the oil and the water put the soap or the common detergent that is how they do it in poetry it is not easy to mix the oily feelings with the watery ones and it is hard to check which detergent to use what is it that is having poetic sense..."></div> </div> </div>

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