Easy Is Too Easy

Love poems are easy. Hate poems even more so. An intellectual screed can make a poet believe in his truth without even a spot of evidence. Nature poetry is hardly ever about nature, it's more the observed seen through a personal filter, never much deeper. People want poetry to move them, but a poet in not a 'moving' company, simply shuffling emotional content from here to there. Too easy. Weird, strange, impossibly enigmatic, wildly abstract is often better than a recycled copy of the time worn and predictable. Replication is easy. Never claim to be a poet or you might be guilty of all of the above as at times we all are.