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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.
Up the ladder:
Grim But Never Reflected
Down the ladder:
Waves (2)
Votes: (green: user, blue: anonymous)
Arithmetic Mean: 7.142857
Posted: July 19, 2003 12:17 PM PDT; Last modified: July 22, 2003 10:13 AM PDTWeighted score: 5.576303 Overall Rank: 2378 Comments:
Bountiful yet lean.
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"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/a