Interesting <br /> <br />Most poetry is fiction <br />not history <br />The content stories lives depicted <br />are not facts <br />They didn’t really <br />happen <br /> <br />Poetry is for the most part <br />the product <br />of my imagination <br />It happened in the neurons <br />History, as perceived, happened <br />in the world <br />Science, as understood, is <br />how the world is <br /> <br />Yet I believe that <br />good poetry expresses <br />a purer, at least a different, form <br />of truth <br /> <br />It is therefore my aspiration <br />to push aside the so-called facts <br />the science history and <br />the mountains of this <br />information-age data <br /> <br />and enter into the world <br />of my imagination <br />to deal with essences rather than <br />objectivities, not to narrate in type <br />but to paint pictures in words <br /> <br />I will speak plainly and simply <br />I will tell you my story <br />I will share with you my truth<br /><br />Tom Courtney<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/truth-131/
