There Was A Time / When Poetry Was The Poet's Only Life Poem by Shalom Freedman

There Was A Time / When Poetry Was The Poet's Only Life



THERE WAS A TIME/ WHEN POETRY WAS THE POET’S ONLY LIFE

There was a time
When Poetry was the Poet’s only life-
All that was in his experience
Had its meaning
Only as Poetry.

But when he began to understand
‘Poetry’ had primarily become a ‘means’
For his own Greed and Ego.
Poetry was lost.

But as he was a Poet in his soul,
He and his life too were also lost.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Michael Pruchnicki 22 June 2009

OK, what's your point? I ask because you write cryptic and obscure verse, Shalom. There's in the rulebook of poetry that says you must not be clear in your writing!

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