Yes, I believe we're the ones broken
on the rocks, while the poem inside
loosens, breaks its tether and floats free.
Gerald
>A 'mineshaft' does love a story! And there is nothing like it when a child
> goes down and is either rescued alive or not. People continue to talk
> about
> it for years.
> And so goes a good poem - once tender and young - too.
>
> This is called making the best of a romantic trope. I remember when the
> poet Jack Gilbert - a total romantic - would say that something had to
> crack
> inside you before you could get a good poem out. I took that as kind of
> older poet's means of upping the ante and holding off us young.
>
> I suspect it's life that breaks you, not the poem.
>
> Stephen V
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>
>
>> <snip>
>> I have no idea why my sometimes dyslexic brain immediately read this as:
>> "The writing of a poem is like throwing a child into a mineshaft."
>> <snip>
>>
>> Q's advice to 'murder your darlings' perhaps?
>>
>> CW
>> _______________________________________________
>>
>> 'What's the point of having a language that everybody knows?'
>> (Gypsy inhabitant of Barbaraville)
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