Are These Straightforward Confessions Of Feelings Poems? Poem by Shalom Freedman
Are These Straightforward Confessions Of Feelings Poems?
Aren’t they too literal and too one- dimensional?
Where is their metaphor and their surprise?
Again then
I confess,
“I am a poor simple writer of plain words
No poet in the most imaginative and interesting sense
A man who writes his own truth
And lets the words lie on the page
As if they were his own inaudible breath.”
The best poets are the honest and modest ones who accept their limitations and make the most of what they have, very nice poem, I really enjoyed it.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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In the end we can only write our own truths they may be universal but come from our own experiences of this ghost of a life. Plainness is no bad thing. BB : O{