Language And Poetry Poem by Ravi Kopra

In your ignorant early years
you begin to think that
all poetry written in English is great
and poetry in your own language is third rate.

Your thinking in not right.
Leave your foolishness and write
poetry in the language you can
read, write and understand and make
others understand what you write.

Language has to do much with poetry.
You are a lost soul, a fool without it
And your admirers are lost souls and fools themselves
Except for what lies in your head you can't express.