Friday, September 15, 2017

Simplicity Comments

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Flowery, showery words
Are not for me,
I like it simple as can be,
Poetic arrow to the heart
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Sandra Feldman
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Daniel Brick 15 September 2017

You know, Sarah, some day we will end up in the same place, namely, a Heaven for Poets (!) but we will reach it by different paths: you celebrate yours in this poem extolling SIMPLICITY. Many other poets agree with you and are nodding their heads. I take a different path: I love beautiful language first and foremost. I share my eloquence with them but I don't summon them to follow my lead. Yours is a moral voice which DOES summon people to rise above their mediocrity and reclaim the values that will make a better world. That must be why I read and comment on your poems: I have the ears to hear and heed your words but not the voice to match them.

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