That mean more than their own literalness? <br />Where are the wild metaphors that surprise? <br />Where are the lines of beauty that inspire? <br />Where is some mystery some irony some deep perception? <br />Where is Beauty? <br /> <br />Where are the words <br />That are true Poetry? <br />And not the flat, static, empty, literal words <br />I write and write <br />Against the emptiness <br />Of my own faltering life?<br /><br />Shalom Freedman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/where-are-the-words-3/
