Transcendental Sonnet #822:
On the Eve of Exile

I shudder to think about it today
But it hurts me deeply I must admit
How some would wish poetry go away
So be it then I must get used to it

I look at poetry and find no shame
Why must it be lesser than other things?
Is it a sign of ignorance to blame
Art and artists for the changes it brings?

Why must our poetry be second-class
To the least neuroscientific a*s?
Why must what we say be hidden away?
Why ghettoize? Why marginalize? Why
Can you not realize that all is one?
Silence poetry and what have you done?

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+Steven Curtis Lance

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"Silence poetry and what have you done?"

this is a wonderful poem, I wish it didnt need to be written though...

Love,
Dara