Short Not Personal Poems

This Love is in Prison 

awake I am emotional
take it easy not personal

this love is now in prison
I fail to understand the reason

doing what I wanted, I tried
I failed, I lost hope, I cried

things seemed to be the best
but later turned to be the worst

the heart turns to be dry
love seems to be a lie

in prison I cannot escape
like a little girl during rape.

Drencho POET Loads...

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Wallace Stevens said: 
"Poetry is not personal."
He tried never to divulge
anything about himself
in his poems.

Or so he said.
But, the work 
is self-revelatory, veiled confessions,
repeated choices -- water, sea motion,
weather, the sky -- introspective isolation --
those silences and descriptive phrases
that communicate and characterize.

Human, 
no one -- especially not poets --
can really hide....

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