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Laura Slaathaug
Poems
Apr 2017
What Poets Tell Me About Poetry
I.
So well, honest people make poor poets,
since they want dockyard receipts from Sparta
for how many ships Helen’s face launched there.
II.
Honest details make the best poetry.
Poets plant made-up gardens with real toads,
where clothing and china patterns are art.
III.
Poets write because they have things to say.
They write because they have things they can’t say,
and so, start with the sobs they can’t swallow.
IV.
Poetry is like life, being one big question
that you live until the answers arrive,
And emotion finds thought and thought find words.
National Poetry Month Day 8. Writing prompt: Repetition poem
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Written by
Laura Slaathaug
North Dakota
(North Dakota)
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