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Introduction To Poetry - Poem by Billy Collins

I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.

But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.


Comments about Introduction To Poetry by Billy Collins

  • Bronze Star - 2,438 Points Sylvia Frances Chan (9/24/2017 10:40:00 AM)

    Excellent poem. Hilarious situation.. Best Introduction to Poetry, better than I had when I was still studying the matter at my faculty of letters. Thank you for your subtile humor, which I like very much. Thank you for sharing much sun on a grey day. A TEN for your entertainment of this class, Billy. Regards from Silly, I MEAN Sylvie of course, (Report) Reply

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  • Rookie - 86 Points Frank Frank (6/3/2017 9:48:00 AM)

    This is so lovely.There is this new collection of poems Soul Etchings. It features a new style and refreshing forms. you can get the poem here goo.gl/KkhYF0 (Report) Reply

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  • Rookie - 86 Points Frank Frank (6/3/2017 9:45:00 AM)

    This is so lovely. There's a new collection Soul Etchings. It portrays Originality, Style and a refreshing sense of form. These poets may be the futrue of Poetry, you can get the collection here goo.gl/KkhYF0 (Report) Reply

    Bronze Star - 2,438 Points Sylvia Frances Chan (9/24/2017 10:42:00 AM)

    But dear Frank, please need not to go, these poems suffice. Thank you.

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Poems About Poetry

  1. 1. Introduction To Poetry , Billy Collins
  2. 2. Poetry , Pablo Neruda
  3. 3. Dis Poetry , Benjamin Zephaniah
  4. 4. Poetry , Marianne Moore
  5. 5. Some Like Poetry , Wislawa Szymborska
  6. 6. Of Modern Poetry , Wallace Stevens
  7. 7. Poetry , Charles Bukowski
  8. 8. Poetry Reading , Charles Bukowski
  9. 9. Poetry , Don Paterson
  10. 10. Because You Asked About The Line Between.. , Howard Nemerov
  11. 11. In Dispraise Of Poetry , Jack Gilbert
  12. 12. The Uses Of Poetry , William Carlos Williams
  13. 13. Love, The Soul Of Poetry , Anne Killigrew
  14. 14. Poetry , Claude McKay
  15. 15. Goodbye To The Poetry Of Calcium , James Arlington Wright
  16. 16. The Progress Of Poetry , Jonathan Swift
  17. 17. reiterative Poetry , Sidi J. Mahtrow
  18. 18. ! Love And Poetry; Poetry And Love , Michael Shepherd
  19. 19. About My Poetry , Nazim Hikmet
  20. 20. Apollo Musagete, Poetry, And The Leader .. , Delmore Schwartz
  21. 21. Poetry And Religion , Les Murray
  22. 22. To One Who Loved Not Poetry , Sappho
  23. 23. Poetry For Supper , Ronald Stuart Thomas
  24. 24. A Poetry Reading At West Point , William Matthews
  25. 25. Spirit Of Poetry, The , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  26. 26. ! Call That ****ing Poetry? , Michael Shepherd
  27. 27. ! The Hallmark Of Poetry , Michael Shepherd
  28. 28. Love Me - Love My Poetry , Bonnie Alden Phillips
  29. 29. On Donne's Poetry , Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  30. 30. Poetry Can Damage Your Health , John Thorkild Ellison
  31. 31. Poetry Writes, Poetry Reads, Poetry Lives , Bharati Nayak
  32. 32. Philology Recapitulates Ontology, Poetry.. , Delmore Schwartz
  33. 33. Poetry , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  34. 34. Various Quotes From On Poetry And Craft:.. , Theodore Roethke
  35. 35. Hasslefree Poetry , Linda Ori
  36. 36. ! 'Poetry Means...Uh...' , Michael Shepherd
  37. 37. Poetry , Akara K.
  38. 38. At A Poetry Party I Am Given The Rhyme C.. , Li Ching Chao
  39. 39. A Defense Of Bad Poetry , Michael Shepherd
  40. 40. The Poetry Of Life , Friedrich Schiller
  41. 41. Against The Dispraisers Of Poetry , Richard Barnfield
  42. 42. ! ! Gertrude Stein Is Interviewed On Ame.. , Michael Shepherd
  43. 43. A Little More Poetry , Sandra Osborne
  44. 44. To His Friend Master R. L., In Praise Of.. , Richard Barnfield
  45. 45. In Praise Of Poetry... , Michael Shepherd
  46. 46. His Poetry His Pillar , Robert Herrick
  47. 47. On Writing Poetry , C.J. Heck
  48. 48. 0158 For Fjr; Here's To Poetry , Michael Shepherd
  49. 49. Poetry-My Window , >Starr Williams<
  50. 50. An Address To Poetry , Helen Maria Williams

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