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We Will Write - We Poets Bold

I fear the coming insurrection demands poetical perfection as if the Bard had never crumpled a twisted thought slightly rumpled Nor Mya in a fit of peak give her best a little tweak for often in our readings proof It reads like a poetic spoof. Alas the perfect all profess to writing more while writing less relying on a workman’s hammer driving in the rules of grammar and yet the ink has never strayed it’s nature motionless and staid it flows the same across the page expressing words of love or rage. So we will write, we poets bold and not do much that we are told for it’s our nature that we fight the coming of “that cold dark night”. John G. Lawless ©7/11/2022

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Date: 7/12/2022 7:23:00 PM
I would rather fight than right. Older now, have to be content to write. Gee whillikers, gw
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Date: 7/12/2022 9:53:00 AM
I love "relying on a workman's hammer/driving in the rules of grammar". Sometimes I think "we poets bold" tend to forget that there are "mechanics" associated with writing. I like the theme and the tenor of this piece, John.
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Date: 7/12/2022 8:51:00 AM
A good one, John, especially pointing out the independence of the creative spirit. I really liked this.
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