<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=549892" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dear Poetry</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Don't rhyme, Poetry.<br>Our thoughts and tongues don't think that way.<br>Steer clear of meter, sweet Poetry.<br>I'm tired of counting and scanning.<br>Liberate yourself from the chains of Tradition<br>and become yourself, Poetry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know your laws like a son knows his father's, <br>Reading your tales from Burns, Blake, and Donne.<br>I know your anatomy like a physician<br>and I practiced, practice, practicing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And like the teenager I am, Poetry, <br>I rebelled.<br>I became an individually packaged poet<br>Pen sold separately.<br>And all by choice, too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Keep your tradition, and I'll start mine.<br>I'll visit, and I expect you to call, <br>But for now I'll stick with my philosophical prose and<br>small machines of thought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thank you though, Tree of Poetry<br>I hope I don't fall far from you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eli+MorenoDrew">Eli MorenoDrew</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=549892" data-title="Dear Poetry de Eli MorenoDrew" data-description="Don't rhyme, Poetry. Our thoughts and tongues don't think that way. Steer clear of meter, sweet Poetry. I'm tired of counting and scanning. Liberate yourself from the chains of Tradition and become yourself, Poetry. I know your laws like a son kn..."></div> </div> </div>

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