Poetry For All Poem by Dmitry Garanin

Nobody is reading anybody
because everybody can write better
on virtually any subject,
maybe not even deserving attention,
at least at first sight,
if you judge by appearances,
which is not a good practice anyway
because there are oceans of meaning
in every manifestation of reality
that is enveloping us all
in nearly the same way.

All you do is just pick it up from the environment,
and if you know the language,
coin it into succinct short lines
without an accumulation of consonants
and ambiguities
impeding catching the phrase on the fly
by the ear and not only by the eye.

It is not necessary to torture yourself
with meter and rhyme
that are historically outdated
and uncollegial with respect to others,
as if you presume to accomplish
something more challenging
than an ordinary person is able to do
in the way of expressing him- or herself
about what we are perceiving
with our collective mind.

New York,12 February 2015