By adding up time
spent on worry, we’d see how
it subtracts from happiness.
~
By adding up time
spent on poetry, we’d see
how it multiplies pleasure.
By adding up time
spent on worry, we’d see how
it subtracts from happiness.
~
By adding up time
spent on poetry, we’d see
how it multiplies pleasure.
We’ve tried many themes,
some tragic, others comic.
How about economics?
~
Economy of
words (some might add thought) are what
these poems are all about.
What does poetry
have to offer to a world
in such dire need?
~
Though poetry can’t
change the world’s great need, it can
change the way the need’s perceived.
Poetic license?
Can just anyone get one
or only poets?
~
Poetic license
is free to every writer,
yet all freedom has a price.
Who said poetry
Requires great effort and
Some visionary forethought?
~
Sometimes we poets
enter a wordless realm where
effort and forethought don’t dwell.