Your Friend
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Your friend belittled your topic
Your friend belittled your style
Your friend belittled your lack of rhyme
Your friend belittled your metaphor.
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Your friend asked you how much you made writing poetry
And when you explained the nature of anthologies
and how they often don't pay anything at all,
Your friend laughed and said
"Oh, you must not be very good at it
if they won't pay you at all."
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First off, I think your friend
has an incomplete grasp on the nature of poetry.
May I submit that poetry has many ways
to delve into the myriad emotions of the heart,
to explore the layers of spirituality of the soul,
and to entertain the contrary thoughts of the mind.
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It can be humorous or serious,
playful or sober-sided,
beautiful and smooth,
or ugly and rough.
Sometimes they rhyme, sometimes not,
sometimes they metaphor, sometimes not.
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I do have one question though
why do you call her friend?
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..................©2020 Susan Williams.
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