Answer On a Bed of Nails

Should it be a poet's duty To write solely about beauty? A POET’S DUTY by BETH EVANS ANSWER ON A BED OF NAILS let me answer the quixotic brioche — we all need a delicate pinch; brachial bruising a warning all the flowery talk dispels the magnitude of cancer, the carbuncle of abuse, the horrific salutations of the nazi regime we march alone but also as a world arm in arm, armed with insecticide words like ants; a bench’s rash a hose in diffusion’s spray may try to paint the sky in shades of love’s foray turn it off; let flow subside take a better look — heart on a bed of nails war of words; a twisting sword let truth be the blood that scores because a poet can also whitewash with parrots mimic...mimic...mimicking seek your bellyache examine, test, squander all its savings let cavalry of water fall soaking wet with poet’s ink 10/9/2020 Beth Evans’ A Poet's Duty Poetry Contest