To The Budding Poets Poem by Pheko Motaung
To The Budding Poets
Learn the rules
And unlearn the rules
Poetry is mood/ heart/ soul
It is spirit and mind and...agony
As in Li Bai making fun of poor
Du Fu agonizing over a point of poetry
Don't be such a stickler for rules...
WRITE THAT POEM NOW!
Where there's smoke there's fire. Where
There's fire there are people. Where
There are people there's trouble my dear
And the analysts and the critics they're
Everywhere but they will not write that poem,
That masterpiece for you if dilly dally again
And stop agonizing over who was this Li Bai guy
And the unfortunate target of his Taoist jokes
POSTSCRIPT! !
About the deserved injury to the analysts
ME
I just
Don't care
Me boy
He he he he he!
Ah waz jus' trying to make ze peace with
Ze world ze understenden, hm?
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4/19/2024 5:16:59 PM # 1.0.0.1119
Learn the rules, unlearn the rules, poetry is mood/heart/soul. Wow. I like it. So true. Let us write, write write. Ffrom the heart, from the soul. Fantastic message to us, budding poets.