Dilettantes Poems - Poems about Dilettantes

... The mind doesn't passively await impressions, no tabula rasa, The mind is active, understanding, not just a passerby. He had bete noire towards Christianity, a Scottish Nominalist, David Hume,......

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...Science never answers the primary questions it ponders in circles deck chairs rearranged Reciprocal theorems of self aggrandizement indentured to kingdoms where dilettantes reign ......

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...A strand of pearls not tied with knots; we’re held together — just a thread. At times like sticky spider silk and other times a shred of string that aches and breaks and throws our pearls acros......

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...If you use the word languish I’m stopping my read When you speak the word nurture I’m far from intrigued If I hear you say milieu I run for the door Or when you spout genre my ears to abhor......

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...You can’t teach poetry pro forma it’s the effort of a fool You can’t gain sagacity from a book or by the golden rule You can’t be what you haven’t lived the safety net misleads You can’t blee......

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...PROFESSOR POETS These are poems about professor poets and other “intellectuals” who miss the main point of poetry, which is to connect with readers via pleasing sounds and the communication of emo......

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...cheer the hell up if you can nothing cheats the hangman like enthusiasm since my next act will be to answer all your questions as your tenured professor of dyslexia throw down your eye wear blu......

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...Standing hidden off to the side naked and alone, his aura too imposing, his cover all but blown A target of those dilettantes, consummate poseurs, his space they had surrounded —his legend t......

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...A jackdaw is stealing my tote bag of unused words, a rodentlike kibitzer, a pecking dictator of the worthiness of sounds. If I run out of bullets now he will take over my range, blue-pencil my ......

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...State of the Art (III) These are my "ars poetica" poems: the ones about the art and craft of writing poetry in a modern world that doesn't always recognize the artists or their work. Come ......

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...Poems about Poems IV The Toast by Michael R. Burch For longings warmed by tepid suns (brief lusts that animated clay), for passions wilted at the bud and skies grown desolate and gray, for......

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...An Obscenity Trial by Michael R. Burch The defendant was a poet held in many iron restraints against whom several critics cited numerous complaints. They accused him of trying to reach the "co......

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... "Tease for Two" “Ein bisschen Zucker mit Ihrer Sahne, Sir?“ German accent smoky toned she purred Periwinkles suavely winked, then p......

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...Poets write from experience, dilettantes rave and rant A price demanded to feed the Sage, wishing and hoping can’t Magic to wrap around the words, feelings and thoughts hard won Beauty wh......

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...A chat room for dilettantes —singing to the choir (Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)......

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