Poet's Work Poem by Lorine Niedecker

Poet's Work

Rating: 4.8


Grandfather
advised me:
Learn a trade

I learned
to sit at desk
and condense

No layoffs
from this
condensery

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
M Asim Nehal 03 December 2015

great advice and nice followup..I enjoyed it

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Ramesh T A 03 December 2015

Something interesting to know about poet of this kind!

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Ratnakar Mandlik 03 December 2015

The most profitable, most charitable trade without capital investment. It is your intellect and imagery that help you to prosper as a poet in terms of poems as your assets and no wealth in the worldly sens. Enjoyed. Thanks for sharing.10 points.

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Susan Williams 03 December 2015

I love a quick wit in a poet

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Edward Kofi Louis 03 December 2015

To learn and, to work. Nice work.

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Anil Kumar Panda 03 December 2015

Nice reading. Thanks for sharing.

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Bharati Nayak 03 December 2015

A great advice the poet got from his grand father- -to sit at the desk and condense and there is no lay off from this condensery.He sat at the desk to condense his thoughts into poems and fell in love with that work.Nice condensery!

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