don't leave their words alone

some poets
tell me that they've

only read
Poe.

I think of the wealth
of words
of mind to pen crash
landing on paper,

and how stunned I am
that the curious

act can even
exist. breaking the back
of ordinary.

— whitetea, Sep 08, 2008

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Region, Country: United States, USA

Favorite Poets: Chrystos, Mark Strand, Adrienne Rich, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rachel M. Simon, Donald Justice, Mary Oliver, Nikki Giovanni, Alice Walker, Bukowski, Mary Lambert

Critiques

Barbara Writes

17 years 9 months ago

Really good write

Smiles:) Barbara not sure what the theme is. I like how you made it flow.

Arrow

17 years 9 months ago

It is amazing to me, too

that people wouldn't take the opportunity to take a freely offered look into others' lives. I think the way you've stuctured this captures that sense of being stunned. The short lines give it that halting sense of someone in shock. I esp. like stanza 2, which reads like a raised eyebrow of disbelief.