Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.
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If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
I believe that poetry should communicate.
All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.