Well, yeah, Patrick, but it’s one ting to try fro, & I guess this poem wanted to (also ‘beauty’ can take many forms,some of them ‘ugly’ to some eyes/ears…)/
Thanks Bill.
Doug
> On Feb 6, 2020, at 3:18 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Doug this old head just wonders about poems having to be about beauty?
>
> On 05/02/2020 19:17, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>> the poem refuses
>> it will not speak
>> it will not write
>>
>> this venal politics
>> surrounding us
>> surrounding it
>>
>> no beauty there
>> so the poem refuses
>>
>> so many people dying
>> so many fires floods
>> wars manifest & hidden
>>
>> but the poem refuses
>> to write them down
>>
>> the poem knows
>> what the poem knows
>>
>> & the poem knows
>> it must refuse
>>
>>
Douglas Barbour
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Done in by creation itself.
I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
Robert Kroetsch
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