A Poem For All Seasons
What makes a good poem?
The beauty of the words?
The easy flow of its lines?
How deeply personal?
Or should it be universal...
singing to all of humanity?
Should the poem be easily clutched
by the mind's hand, or is it best to be
recondite: hiding its meaning, secretive,
needing a key to unlock what treasure
there may be found? (For myself, I like
the simple, both to read and write...
for I have lived enough complicated.)
Good poem, bad poem...
what makes one catapult
exuberantly into your soul
while another is dragged down
into the basement of the unconscious,
there to be forgotten forever?
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