thank god poetry has inched its way <br />into the hearts of the common man again <br />let's not make its journey there too laborious <br /> <br />let's write poems for the common man <br />like Blake, like Wordsworth, like Neruda <br />poems that sing and dance as they make their <br />way out to the the sea of humanity <br />poems of the Creator's brush that paint an <br />enchanting innocent world to be unravelled <br />as they make their way into the repository of human knowledge <br />let's make it all that simple, like making tea <br />when all we have to ask is whether it should <br />be sweet or plain yet are sure it will be fully savoured <br /> <br />let's write poem with the common men's words <br />so that it can be embraced without apprehension <br />let's not extort an art of its life and gentility so that <br />they are drowned in a sea of isms, isms, isms<br /><br />john tiong chunghoo<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/isms-isms-isms/
