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A Delicate Poem

by EAger to Offend

Member since 2003 · Posted 19 Jul 2003 · Edited 22 Jul 2003 · 3 comments

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.

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[7] richa 22-Jul-03/10:53 AM Reply
quite good, but poems about poems signal a lack of inspiration
[n/a] ecargo › richa 23-Jul-03/8:42 AM Reply
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
[8] horus8 22-Jul-03/9:00 PM Reply
Bountiful yet lean.