What Is Poetry, The Truth Gainsaid?

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Dennis Ryan

Wellsville, New York

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Wellsville, New York

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Monday morning, February 11,2019 at 10: 35 a.m.; Friday afternoon,
June 14,2019 at 1: 57 p.m.

What is poetry?Is the reader involved,
listening intently to an imaginary discourse,
an alchemy in words?The truth gainsaid?
Might the reader want more, a declaration
that is truth in the poverty of its words?
O small truth?Poet, give us this or nothing.

Dennis Ryan

Friday, June 14, 2019

Topic(s) of this poem: deception,lie,lies,poetry,reader,readers,reading,truth

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The speaker of the poem believes that the writing of poems should involve the revelation of various earthly truths, and not resort to lies, lying, to deceive readers.

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