( excerpted from ----

THE WORDS OF THE MASTER POET )

                                                              ­    Author ----- ANONYMOUS

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The most basic feature of great poetry is its use of CONTRAST

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For example - for something to have a certain quality

It's absence must have the severest OPPOSITE   quality

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The absence of the one you love

Must be reason  for extreme hatred

Or the love seems shallow

//

Having  a friend must be blown up into

True eternal joy !

The absence of this feeling must be portrayed as

PAIN !

( and you must portray yourself as BROKEN !

as FOREVER SCARRED !

as now a ******* INSANE IDIOT !

or have your work shrunken unto impotency

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You must describe your love as

1000 super novas !

Exploding majestically

In the heartland of your *****

Your ***** becoming

The Vision of the universe

The appearance of god himself !

Here to illuminate the human race  !

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And the PAIN !

The excrutiating  pain

In love 's absence

The life denying loneliness

The razor blades

The exalted scars !

Of body
Mind &
                                 Soul !

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THIS IS POETRY !

                                         ( contrast )

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The ACCEPTED , trendy sort of poetry

Or

The REJECTS ! - wallowing in wisdom

And compassion

( these flairs MUST be avoided )

Think only of

EXTREMES

love / hate

Joy / pain

worthy / worthless

Etc

And you too

Will become

A MASTER POET

( like ME )