From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
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The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.Mark Strand
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
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In a field I am the absence of field. That is always the case. Wherever I am, I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the space where my body has been. We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.
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A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
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