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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

  • Rookie Sukirty (12/3/2018 4:42:00 AM)

    Thanks for poem Iove it (Report) Reply

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  • Rookie hiloolollolo (9/29/2018 8:50:00 AM)

    fxck this is shxt lol (Report) Reply

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  • Bronze Star - 2,257 Points Raynolds Moseamedi (9/3/2018 6:42:00 PM)

    A great poem, thank you Billy for sharing (Report) Reply

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