Reading Poems

To read some poems
is to read a foreign language
only it is supposedly English
just better English than I have ever used
I would have to look up the meaning of ten words per line
To make sense of it, so I don’t bother
Skipping these gladly….
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Hankins Avatar
May 14, 2021 at 9:10 PM
Me, too...and, if they are too long, draining my energy before their third stanza!
Krutsinger Avatar
May 15, 2021 at 4:17 PM
I skip them withintensity
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