a poem a day
All poems are not equal
Just like grades of meat
and paper towels,
there are poems that are tough to chew on, stringy even
then there poems that melt into your mouth and soul, like velvety cream
some poems are flavored to perfection
and lots of poems with no salt
There are sturdy poems which mop up the spills of your heart
and thin poems, flimsy, ones that fall apart when you try to use them
There are poems that move and feel good in your hands
and poems that make your skin crawl when you read them.
No, all poems are not equal –
sometimes I wonder
why I like this thing called ‘poetry’ at all.
At other times I know exactly
why I have fallen so passionately
in love.
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AL
Listen to Stephen Burt at TEDx on Why We Need poetry http://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_burt_why_people_need_poetry
Listen to John Denver sing Poems, Prayers and Promises http://youtu.be/M6PEsa36SRY ❤️
photo sources found at www.pinterest.com/al513
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