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
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> this venal politics
> surrounding us
> surrounding it
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> no beauty there
> so the poem refuses
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> so many people dying
> so many fires floods
> wars manifest & hidden
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> but the poem refuses
> to write them down
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> the poem knows
> what the poem knows
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> & the poem knows
> it must refuse
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> Douglas Barbour
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> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> Listen. If (UofAPress):
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> Done in by creation itself.
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> 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?
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> Robert Kroetsch
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