A Perfect Poem...... [what Is One? ; Very Short; A Poet's Wisdom? ] Poem by Bri Edwards

A Perfect Poem...... [what Is One? ; Very Short; A Poet's Wisdom? ]

Rating: 4.4


How can one know what makes up a perfect poem, either short or long?
It’s the same as knowing what CAN'T be known: “what’s a perfect song? ”
As soon as someone makes a “perfect-poems list”... and shows it,
along comes someone else who takes that “list”, and in the trash can throws it.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
does anyone DISagree? ? i just edited the poem after it had been online for a day or two, altering it in several places. i was prompted to do it after a very good high school-and-beyond friend suggested some changes. i took one of her small
suggestions, rejected another one, and made some independent changes.
all that work for a 3-sentence poem!
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Ellias Anderson Jr. 09 June 2013

A real perfect poem Bri. well done

1 0 Reply
Saadat Tahir 08 June 2013

hi bri i always enjoy your candid and from the hip comments...thanx here the first three lines i guess is the group of imbeciles called poets on PH and the last laugh / line.. :) .... most likely refers to you nice rhyming there

0 0 Reply
Chinedu Dike 15 February 2015

Even poems regarded as masterpieces can hardly be called perfect poems. Perfect poems do exist only in imagination, in the state of poetic utopia. I like the insight of the poem and the poet's conviction. Thanks for sharing. Please read my poem MZANSI AND THE BALLOT BOX.

0 0 Reply
Clarence Prince 30 June 2013

In the trash can throw it, Bri! where else? 73245

0 0 Reply
Clarence Prince 30 June 2013

In the trash can throw it, Bri! where else!

0 0 Reply
R.j. Wynn 24 June 2013

It's kindly a cheap shot but I like it.

0 0 Reply
Danny Draper 09 June 2013

But is it worth the changes like this To be included on one such poetic list, To be selected and kindly regarded Just to have that list coldly discarded?

0 0 Reply
READ THIS POEM IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Bri Edwards

Bri Edwards

Earth, i believe
Close
Error Success