June 17th, 2006
Introduction to Poetry
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.
-Billy Collins
Anusha Mujumdar says:
Sad but true. It’s beautiful!
June 21st, 2006 at 07:25 pm
anirudh says:
beautiful..u dont leave me with words kunal..!
June 21st, 2006 at 10:51 pm
baba says:
very very cool:shock:
June 22nd, 2006 at 04:08 am
Confucius says:
I am guilty of it most of the times. But then..i seldom make sense.
June 30th, 2006 at 03:57 am