A POET LOSES HIS POWER FOR POETRY <br /> <br />A poet loses his power for poetry <br />He can put down words <br />But they no longer have poetry in them <br />Something of the feeling of what real poetry is <br />is gone. <br />He strives <br />He writes again and again <br />He puts words down in the forms and in the shapes his poems usually take <br />But he has no poetry in him <br />He has lost what he is <br />And all he can do <br />is strive again and again <br />Word after word <br />Silence after silence <br />To hear within himself again <br />A voice he does not have. <br /> <br />The poet is writing poetry <br />And it is not poetry <br />The poet is dead <br />And he is pretending to be alive <br />Is this a poem? <br />Is he a poet <br />Is he dead? <br />Is he alive?<br /><br />Shalom Freedman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-poet-loses-his-power-for-poetry/
