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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 Boyo Bulatao (8/3/2018 11:01:00 PM)

    How can I contribute a poem here? Thanks! (Report) Reply

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  • Rookie Ruth Walters (6/19/2018 8:45:00 AM)

    I love this poem for your humour, you see the funny side of people trying their damndest to find more in a poet than, maybe, was ever intended. (Report) Reply

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  • Veteran Poet - 1,602 Points Kiran Pillai (6/16/2018 5:40:00 AM)

    ha ha very nice. Felt it quite well (Report) Reply

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  18. 18. Poetry , Claude McKay
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