Musing

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Musing
By Mina Ellyse Warren
February 1, 1997

Poetry
speaking from the heart and the mind
and the soul
Words
poured forth
Dreams made tangible
to bring dreams to others

Criticise:
"poor cadence
wrong choice of words
make it better
learn to write poetry
Take a class
make it correct
Write not your soul
nor your mind
nor your heart
rather what others
before you
have done"

Write as the critic wishes
perfection
A gleaming jewel
of emptiness and proper form
Make it non-art
but manufacture

Poetry
sweet blood more life-giving
and life-forgiving
than that which flows in veins

Each word
a work of art

for a picture is worth a thousand words
yet a word is worth a thousand pictures

Your work is your own
not to be compared to any standard
not to be held to criticism's false ideals

And the critics,
their power disrupted,
shall protest
Listen to what they say
Take heed of their mockeries
For in their words
hear their impotence and fear

The muse within each one of us
is far more powerful and potent than any from without

Copyright (c) 1997 Mina Ellyse Warren

Comments

[batchfile.livejournal.com]

i like the poetry.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Thanks! =)