Thursday, April 25, 2013

Day 25: The Trouble With Poetry*


The trouble with poetry comes
not in writing but in
letting
go,
In turning the poem
over
to the reader, not
over and over
in the mind.
Nobody will read it
the way you do.
And that’s okay.


*With thanks to Billy Collins for the title. :)
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