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A Delicate Poem (Free verse) by EAger to Offend

A delicate poem requires the soft touch of a watercolourist who renders fan-brushed trees and diluted sky, to amplify his butterflies to rapture. Still, At home the paint is all fat oil in broad, palette-knife strokes, sensitivity usurped by anxiety.

ecargo 23-Jul-03/8:42 AM
t'aint necessarily so:

"A poem should be palpable and mute
as a globed fruit,
dumb
as old medallions to the thumb . . . "

Ars Poetica, by Archibald MacLeish, here: http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/courses/liu/english25/materials/macleish.html




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