Happy People Don’t Write Poetry
Happy people do not write poetry
They are comfortable not to question
The subtle disquiet
They do not break the brain
With wondering
Or split the meat of the mind
To hack at words
with axes blunt
and a puttering will
Or spread their trembling souls
To pose a question, and recoil
To hear it echo back at them
Happy people live in harmony
With the numb and knowing certainty
That the world is right and round.
The poets hate their poetry
They rip and tear and claw the air
The poets chase the thing itself
And it sails away without them.
I would never want to write
To publish what was never done
And wince when others read it,
Like stroking salamanders
Leave the poems for the poets.
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Written on January 15, 2022
Submitted by 11jen.helmer on January 15, 2022
Modified on May 02, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 699 |
Words | 140 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 4, 3, 3, 4, 4, 1 |
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