Telling my own inner Truth- <br />And that telling the Truth is in its way <br />What it really means <br />To live in and for Poetry- <br /> <br />But perhaps <br />Telling the Truth is also a kind of Game- <br /> <br />I say ‘this’ <br />I contradict it with ‘that’ <br />I laugh here I cry there <br />And Irony plays in whatever way it does - <br /> <br />And the Poetry is too a Game, <br />Flat prosy one- dimensional confessional <br />That does not justify being called Poetry at all.<br /><br />Shalom Freedman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-pride-myself-that-in-poetry/
